Lore Book Revelations

[SaitoHikari]

I remember in one of the Monk quests, with that historian explaining some history about the war between Gridania and Ala Mhigo... He mentioned something about a staff (which was significant enough to be named and all) that was lost and captured by the Ala Mhigans after one of the Gridanian commanders launched a very foolish offensive.

Does the lorebook mention anything about this? I've a feeling that staff's going to turn up somewhere with the new expansion...

[TheGrimace]

I remember in one of the Monk quests, with that historian explaining some history about the war between Gridania and Ala Mhigo... He mentioned something about a staff (which was significant enough to be named and all) that was lost and captured by the Ala Mhigans after one of the Gridanian commanders launched a very foolish offensive.

Does the lorebook mention anything about this? I've a feeling that staff's going to turn up somewhere with the new expansion...

This is actually Kan-e-Senna's wand, Claustrum. The wand eventually came back to Gridania and found its way to her capable hands. Whether or not the lore book mentions anything about this, I could not say.

[Rocl]

off the top of my head, I think that's Claustrum, which Kan-E-Senna now wields

[Alberel]

My understanding is that when a world is Rejoined it ceases to exist and its aether is reabsorbed by Hydaelyn and reintegrated into the Source world. The 'why' of it is still unclear though. The impression I get is that Hydaelyn suffers so much damage from a Calamity that she has to draw aether from a reflected world in order to restore herself but there are a bunch of holes in that theory.

We don't actually know if the reflected worlds suffer Calamities as we do on the Source. We don't really know much of what goes on on the reflected worlds at all in fact. The only knowledge we have of them is that the Ascians do interfere on them (Igeyorhm accidentally caused the 13th's Flood of Darkness and the WoD's fought Mitron on the First) so there clearly is something that needs to happen on those worlds as well to engineer a Rejoining.

The ultimate goal for the Ascians though is to have all of the reflections Rejoined with the Source. It's not the Calamities themselves that actually matter; they're just a means to an end. Returning all of that scattered aether to the Source is what will wake Zodiark up somehow. Again, though, we don't know why.

[Dualblade]

So wait, I had been under the impression that our world was one of the remaining shards from what I know from the game itself. Is our world the Source, and if so are we basing this from the game or the lore book (or both)? Still waiting for second wave of books to be ready to try and get mine.

[Dualblade]

Huh. Thought I was paying good enough attention and I wasn't. Need to be more careful in the future then, thanks!

[myahele]

I'm surprised that the War of Magi lasted 300 years; I always thought it lasted many decades at most, but 300 years? That's a very very long time; even more surprising was that Amdapor was the ruling city state of the 12 city states prior to Mhach developing BLM.

I guess I now understand why Mhach and Amdapor's architecture looked like it was built on pillars/ tall buildings since they were building up due to the rising waters.

I can somewhat see the similarities between the 12 creation myth and what little is know about the Age of the Gods. Both had unchecked creation which where somehow destroyed via Wind Calamity. It was said that Nym summoned a meteor to destroy the creations and for a time harmony was reached. I remember in another thread months ago that speculated that the wind calamity was a Hypercane (which can be the end-result of a comet/meteor crashing into earth) ... then there's the "calamity from the skies" that mentioned by Moogles.

[FJerome]

I'm surprised that the War of Magi lasted 300 years; I always thought it lasted many decades at most, but 300 years? That's a very very long time; even more surprising was that Amdapor was the ruling city state of the 12 city states prior to Mhach developing BLM

It could have been that the first couple hundred years were a cold war situation before direct hostilities openly broke-out between Mhach and Amdapor. That may be why there were six city states at the time the war started but only three seem have mattered in the end; the others had already been destroyed through proxy wars between the Big Two.

[Balipu]

Most important lorebook revelation: We are going to need a second lorebook.

[Morningstar1337]

Speaking of which. This seems to be a watery twist on the whole "A god emerging from chaos and made creation" concpet permeating msot creation myths. I think this m ight be due to common idea of seeing outer space as an ocean.