Lore Book Revelations

[Balipu]

Godbert is 56 or 58 I believe. Its Hildy that's 23...

Ah yes. A mother of a man of twenty three summers. Reallly failing at reading here. Now that makes a lot more sense.

. . . I really look forward to seeing what the Japanese phrasing of that text is because I would bet cold hard gil that they're going to call her lord "Shogun" instead of the vaguer "Doman general".

Interesting. So she wasn't actually Doman after all. The book does say that ninja are from Higashima I believe. Originally I mean. And she joined Doma AFTER it had been destroyed. I might be incorrect, hut japanese pretty much says shogun instead of general anyway, so it's likely shogun in the original. Maybe it isn't named explicitly because we might bump into said general *cough* Cyan *cough* if we get Samurai in Stormblood.

I knew all those lotions and potions om the Mandervillian Maid barding were Julyan's!.... But I certainly won't tell her that.

It puts the lotion in the basket.

[FJerome]

Interesting. So she wasn't actually Doman after all. The book does say that ninja are from Higashima I believe. Originally I mean. And she joined Doma AFTER it had been destroyed.

Sorry! I'm trying to avoid getting in trouble for reproducing the entire book here so I'm not transcribing full entries, which meant I left some important stuff out.

Yugiri probably is from Doma, she's definitely not from Hingashi, she's described as "having witnessed the terrors wrought by the Garlean Empire, a young Yugiri made the pilgrimage from her Raen home to the village of the shinobi, seeking tools with which she might fight the Empire".

Anything about Nanamo, please?

I haven't seen anything we didn't already know but to be fair the more important a character is the more the information about them is just scattered everywhere, such as how Aymeric's love of cooking isn't listed in his entry but wound-up mentioned in Lucia's.

[Fenral]

The book does say that ninja are from Higashima I believe.

Going to take a wild guess that the kanji for that is 日ヶ島, which would literally mean "sun island." What's Japan called by the Japanese? 日本, "origin of the sun."

[Balipu]

Sorry! I'm trying to avoid getting in trouble for reproducing the entire book here so I'm not transcribing full entries, which meant I left some important stuff out.

Yugiri probably is from Doma, she's definitely not from Hingashi, she's described as "having witnessed the terrors wrought by the Garlean Empire, a young Yugiri made the pilgrimage from her Raen home to the village of the shinobi, seeking tools with which she might fight the Empire".

No worries. I still appreciate all the info. Don't want to get you into trouble. Altough SE doesn't seem to do anything about all the scan uploads. Thankfully, cause I can't afford to buy and ship a lorebook at present and am very hungry for lore. But honestly I plan to buy the whole thing eventually either way. So she left Doma to become a ninja, but came back too late. Now that's even more interesting.

Going to take a wild guess that the kanji for that is 日ヶ島, which would literally mean "sun island." What's Japan called by the Japanese? 日本, "origin of the sun."

Okay I searched for that part again. It's Hingashi and apparently it means "the east". Also it's an island nation that isn't a part of Othard. So I guess it is like Vylbrand and Aldenard.
If I understand the Au Ra entry correctly, Doma is the city state of the region of Yanxia.

[Fenral]

Ooph. They're getting archaic with their Japanese now, too.

[Cilia]

In regards to the Limit Breaks... it's a gameplay mechanic. Theoretically we should be able to use one on our own, but that sort of thing would just make headaches. Healer and tank Limits aren't particularly useful in solo play, and you'd have to go around fighting and killing things before every dungeon just in case you need it. There's nothing you should need a Limit for in open-world solo play, and no fight should be unwinnable without a Limit. (The only one that comes to mind where it's absolutely necessary is Alexander Prime, and that will probably disappear once people reach higher gear levels. A couple other fights (Ifrit HM, Ultima HM, and the Chrysalis) come to mind, but they are manageable without it.)

Ooph. They're getting archaic with their Japanese now, too.

They've been doing that since the introduction of the Au Ra, kinda. Check out the Raen naming conventions; it's a long explanation on what should be a lore-friendly name with details on archaic (14th - 16th century) Japanese and how naming your Au Ra after your favorite anime character more than likely isn't lore-friendly because they're mostly modern names. (Cf. Xaela conventions, which can be summed up with "Pick an old Mongolian name and a tribe with a quirky custom.")

EDIT
Correction: 16th - 18th century Japanese names.

[Dualblade]

Atleast as far as WHM LB3 seems to be concerned, for many situations the use of it would probably not go over very well for some of our allies well-being. If we had all the Scions together, or if whatever Papalymo casted on Yda works for the WHM one as well (FFVIII Aura maybe?) it could probably work, and while other PCs are not considered Warriors of Light in our story they are certainly more exceptional as to be near or on par with our level so they come out fine as well.

Alisae and the WoD Black Mage taking so long to charge up could also be explained by them and us not having as many people as would be ideal to work with, thus a larger charge time. Speaking of off topic but has anyone lost that part of the battle? I assume the BLM would use Meteor but its always possible it ends up being something else.

[Writer]

Limsa Guilds:
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1522...imsa-lominsa-4

[Morningstar1337]

Limsa Guilds:
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1522...imsa-lominsa-4

And I see there is no bios for Melkoko, Blansytr, or Sisipu in that section. Shame (Unless they are elsewhere in the book?).

Also it seems that the entire section of Limsa AND the Voidsent bestiary were uploaded.

[Balipu]

Limsa Guilds:
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1522...imsa-lominsa-4

Jacke Swallow, huh? I'm sure that isn't an allusion to Jack Sparrow. Nope