Lore Book Preview Spotted on the 14-Hour Broadcast

[Fevelle]

I'm just going to leave this here because I'm too busy reading it to do anything else.

EDITS (AND PTERODACTYL SCREECHING) INCOMING

Let me use this thread for something.
Dear Anonymoose, do you know of something (anything) Nym has done during the War of the Magi? I mean, notable fights, creations or even how they tried to defend themselves?

I have read everything I could find about the war and Nymian's actions seemed so... underwhelming.

I really, really hope this book will be available in Australia (Square Enix store is for digital purchases only down here).

I hope it makes to Amazon. I live in Brazil so it's kinda hard to get any merch here.

[Anonymoose]

Dear Anonymoose, do you know of something (anything) Nym has done during the War of the Magi? I mean, notable fights, creations or even how they tried to defend themselves?

I have read everything I could find about the war and Nymian's actions seemed so... underwhelming.

Not much in the way of specifics. The war was very long, so the cities of the time constantly forged and broke alliances with one another. The only named battle I remember was the Battle of the Gods' Grip. Nym discovered that Amdapor was going to lay siege to their city and successfully repelled them before they even made camp by ambushing their landing craft on the beach.

If I recall right, Nym wasn't a very impressive city in terms of manpower, size, or technology ... mainly arcanima and strategy. I mean, it wasn't a backwater town or anything, but they were constantly outnumbered and facing laughable odds. That's why there's such a focus on battle tactics (hence the discipline of the Scholar). The Nymian Marines would pair a tactician scholar with the brawn of marauders and use their stratagems to either unravel the enemy's plans before they progressed or collapse their rank and file on the battlefield so that strategy could overcome numbers and strength. If you were to be ... normally whelmed ... sufficiently whelmed ... as whelmed as could be expected ... by anything, it would be that Nym consistently beat the odds and held off much larger, much more powerful forces. Look at what Mhach had to restort to in the end: biological warfare and OZMA.

And by the end of the era it looks like a ton of their power came from soulkin such as golems, anyway.

What survives of those old tactics still exists in modern Lominsan arcanists. There's a stratagem for almost any scenario.

[Zorzi]

I really, really hope this book will be available in Australia (Square Enix store is for digital purchases only down here).

My worries exactly. I'm preparing for the worst. Time to find an American friend you trust and set up an intermediary...

[Fevelle]

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Thank you very much!

[Anonymoose]

Thank you very much!

Anytime! (Also, I edited a few lines in after I posted. Bad habit.)

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I know what's gonna be on my christmas list this year.

[Vejjiegirl]

Oh wow, if you read the info on the Seedkin "Biloko" it says they are the creatures that worship Sephirot.
Its hard to pick out but near the bottom of thier text you can see the words Worship, Sephirot, The Fiend.

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...6-1024x768.jpg

[Rocl]

Oh wow, if you read the info on the Seedkin "Biloko" it says they are the creatures that worship Sephirot.
Its hard to pick out but near the bottom of thier text you can see the words Worship, Sephirot, The Fiend.

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...6-1024x768.jpg

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but...

Though manlike in appearance, these enigmatic seedkin and composed entirely of vines and [roots?], and appear to lack intelligence beyond the capacity of killing. Some scholars, especially those who concentrate their studes on the Allagan Empire and its campaign in Meracydia, have attempted, unsuccessfully, to draw similarities between the biloko and the southern continent's indigenous arboreal beings most famously known for their worship of Sephirot, the Fiend.

I wouldn't call it a confirmation, but I read most things when "some scholars suggest" to be direct shoutouts to us lore nerds here, lol (Even if we say this is idle self flattery, there's enough there for it not to be confirmed, imo)
(Like the bit about some scholars believing the Bulb is related to the Treant, but then the book provides evidence carried out by other scholars against, etc)

[Zohar_Lahar]

So nice to see insight into the pre-Allagan times.

[Kusanagi7]

Will this be avalible to purchase and when?