Lore Book Revelations

[Powe]

Go to the games drop down menu and click Final Fantasy XIV, it'll be there

Still not there, can you link the products page?

[Powe]

Yea it's up on the EU website but not America, I even copied and pasted the product name from the EU site and searched in the NA site but still nothing

[Khalithar]

Yea it's up on the EU website but not America, I even copied and pasted the product name from the EU site and searched in the NA site but still nothing

Give it a bit. It's still early in the NA.

[Powe]

Give it a bit. It's still early in the NA.

Well a guy said it was up so eh, though the 150 dollar Odin emote that comes with a free statue was updated.

[BristolRuss]

Just ordered my lore book. Excited!

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I'm still reading through mine - only about 100 pages in - and the book itself is kind of...interesting. Gorgeous and filled with fascinating information, to be sure, but it sometimes comes across as having been written by multiple (fictional) authors, as what they know and don't know seems kind of arbitrary and changes from chapter to chapter - for instance, as we all know, the book confirms Nael to have actually been his sister, and yet refers to Nael via male pronouns throughout the portion that summarizes 1.0's story, making no mention of Eula.

It's not really throwing off my enjoyment of it at all, so it's sort of nitpicky, and I can't wait to learn a bit more about..well, everything. A couple things of note so far:

-Ozma is, astonishingly, not mentioned anywhere. The section on the War of the Magi is quite lengthy, but aside from an appearance in an illustration of the Pyramid, everyone's favorite superboss is completely MIA. This seems odd, considering it swallowed a huge chunk of Nym; you'd think that would at least get a mention, even if Ozma itself was unknown to the author.

-Quite a few interesting tidbits out of the 6th Astral Era timeline, too. So it seems that, while Rabanastre is an Othardian nation, Dalmasca is located in Ilsabard. And speaking of Othard, it seems the Bozja Citadel is located there; is that something we already knew? I feel like it wasn't.

Cool stuff! Regarding Au Ra lore:

I gotta join in on the racial lore requests: I've theorized for a while about Au Ra being related to demons in some way or another, is there anything in the lore book about their physiology that may hint at this? I've heard about their horns and tails, but what else is there?

They're presented in the same way as anything else - as a Race of Man that just happens to have horns and scales. There are no implications towards them being related to "demons" in any way.

So the two clans get along? That's.... interesting.

Well, it's part of their creation myth, not a statement on their current relations. While they're not exactly at each others' throats in modern times, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they get along; between the Xaela being suspicious towards any outsiders and the fact that they live in such different pats of Othard, they probably actually see very little of one another.

On to City-State lore now!

(also, Moose! You were at FanFest! I wanted you to sign my Encyclopedia, and then realized I had no way of identifying you even if we did cross paths. Probably should've thought of that first...)

[Rahela]

I'm not sure if it should go in here or the bug report thread, but Leveva's entire profile is outright contradictory. First off, Encyclopedia Eorzea says 'her mother died in childbirth, and her father a scant few years later.' Except Leveva's father Rufin was murdered in Ishgard either right before or after her birth, twenty years ago, which contradicts her age being given as 16. And for that matter, a rather glaring oversight is that Leveva's mother is still alive! She tried to stop her daughter from going to Eorzea and was used as one of Sevestre's bargaining chips in the level 58 quest.

I don't know how this kind of huge mistake happened, but it's only the first major one I've managed to find, and I'm sure there's more.

[Naria]

I'm not sure if it should go in here or the bug report thread, but Leveva's entire profile is outright contradictory. First off, Encyclopedia Eorzea says 'her mother died in childbirth, and her father a scant few years later.' Except Leveva's father Rufin was murdered in Ishgard either right before or after her birth, twenty years ago, which contradicts her age being given as 16. And for that matter, a rather glaring oversight is that Leveva's mother is still alive! She tried to stop her daughter from going to Eorzea and was used as one of Sevestre's bargaining chips in the level 58 quest.

I don't know how this kind of huge mistake happened, but it's only the first major one I've managed to find, and I'm sure there's more.

You might want to post about it in Moose's errata thread.

[ExKage]

The Leveva thing may still be ok except for the bit about her mother? Possibly? The quest says her mother and grandfather are used against her yes. At one point Sevestre says "You would not believe how long I have been searching for that document. The last one that connected me to your father's...unfortunate accident. I tracked down and had all the others destroyed. But this one has eluded me for almost two decades."

Almost being the keyword if Sevestre has been trying to find it for say 13-16 years.

[LineageRazor]

It's not so much that they messed up as the Japanese version was deliberately ambiguous. My knowledge of Japanese is nowhere near extensive, but I do know it does not have strict gendered pronouns.

I'm not sure that pronouns have anything to do with it, either. Urianger pretty much straight-up asserted that Nael was a male and not a female in the non-cutscene dialogues following Turn 9, and even went on to speculate that Turn 9's female Nael may have been been constructed from the memory of some woman contained within Nael's memories when Bahamut rebuilt him.

However, all this was speculation on Urianger's part. He knew Nael was a man because the Garleans knew that Nael was a man - and this lore book entry asserts that the Garleans knew Nael was a man because Eula had tricked them! There's no inconsistency; it was entirely reasonable for Urianger to believe what he did. And, because of his speculation, Eula's masquerade will likely remain intact in perpetuity. For us as players, though, it finally solves the mystery of, "Who was that woman that Nael was rebuilt as?" Answer: It was Eula, Nael's sister - and there was no rebuilding. Nael was Eula in disguise all along.

Honestly, this answers things satisfactorily for me. Especially now that I know the whole gender bender was created due to a miscommunication between developers. XD