Thanks for bringing this thread back up and reminding me to add my long list of notes. Since they've announced volume 2, it's possible volume 1 might get a reprint alongside it.
Also, a general request: please include an index for volume 2! Or at least an alphabetical list of character profiles and which page they can be found on.
SIMPLE ERRORS
PAGE: 052 (timeline)
HEADING: Year 1561
"Alisae" should be "Alisaie"
PAGE: 053 (timeline)
HEADING: Year 1562
"The Ixal summon their god, Garuda." Should that be "goddess"? Or is that a stylistic choice?
PAGE: 149 (Ishgardian history)
HEADING: Love Transcendent
Line 7 refers to Shiva as an "Elezen human" - from other discussions I've read that the term 'human' is an error if it is used in the English version of the game.
HEADING: The End to the Song
Third-last line: "the Ishgardian's sincere desire for peace" - unless this is supposed to refer to Aymeric specifically, it should be "Ishgardians'" (with apostrophe at the end) for plural.
PAGE: 156 (The Ishgardian High Houses)
HEADING: Artoirel de Fortemps
His name is misspelt as Artoriel twice in that text: line 2 of paragraph 1; line 3 of paragraph 2.
PAGE: 157 (The Ishgardian High Houses)
HEADING: Count Tarresson de Dzemael
He's not the current count, and the main text of his profile refers to him as "Lord Tarresson". This may have been a deliberate decision though.
PAGE: 199 (The Crystal Braves)
HEADING: Wilred Glasse
Grammar error split across lines 1 and 2: "this // a..."
PAGE: 243 (Astrologian)
HEADING: Jannequinard de Durandaire
...should be "Durendaire". Spelt correctly in profile text.
LORE QUERIES
PAGE: 153 (Ishgardian organisations)
HEADING: Estinien Wyrmblood
...is that actually his surname? It's the name displayed when he's a battle NPC but for anyone else, that's an epithet and not their name. I doubt it would be his birth surname and he's later adopted by Alberic Bale. (or is that just too boring-sounding to write down instead of Wyrmblood?)
PAGE: 157 (The Ishgardian High Houses)
HEADING: House Durendaire
"...the count's firstborn son disappeared twenty years ago, and since then the line of succession has remained unclear. Whether the count will remarry and attempt to produce another heir, or turn to a rather less than ideal candidate, is an oft-discussed topic amongst the nobility."
Not necessarily incorrect, but relevant to the House Durendaire / AST questline issues I'm writing about below (and I'm keeping these references in page order). This line may need to be revised alongside other things if necessary.
PAGE: 157 (The Ishgardian High Houses)
HEADING: House Haillenarte
Last paragraph: "eldest daughter Laniaitte" - does that mean there are even more Haillenarte family members we haven't met yet?
(Or possibly have met - I did wonder about Aurelle at Dragonhead.)
Also have to mention I'm a bit disappointed that Laniaitte didn't get a profile. I would have thought she'd rate ahead of Elaisse to get included in the 'minor Heavenward characters' on p212.
PAGE: 199 (The Crystal Braves)
HEADING: Wilred Glasse
Described as "a Midlander of Ala Mhigan descent" which is probably correct, but I was under the impression that Ala Mhigan Hyurans (or at very least all the refugees in Little Ala Mhigo) were all Highlander, thus assumed that Wilred must be a Highlander-with-Midlander-model for the sake of character design. Am I mistaken about this?
PAGE: 225, 241, 243
HEADING: [character profiles]
Heustienne, Stephanivien and Jannequinard are all listed as "Elezen (Wildwood)", which is correct by their character models, but lore-wise should that say "Elezen (Ishgardian)"?
The demographic information on p.148 lists Ishgard's main population as "Ishgardian Elezen" rather than sticking to the game's clan labels, so it seems like the character profiles should do the same.
PAGE: 225 (Dragoon)
HEADING: Heustienne de Vimaroix
"Orphaned at a young age, Heustienne was taken in by the noble house of Brucemont."
There's a character in the dragoon quests called Brucemont - I don't remember him having any specific relationship with Heustienne. Her adoptive father is named Montorgains.
(More generally, I've noticed some confusion between fore- and surnames for Elezen NPCs. Some have 'NPC label names' taken from the surname list but then in the lorebook they've been given a surname after that single name.)
PAGE: 229 (Ninja)
HEADING: Oboro Torioi
The second paragraph talks about him fighting against the Garleans, which seems to be referring to the original invasion twenty-five years ago, but must be the recent uprising, as he is only 24.
PAGE: 237 (Scholar)
HEADING: Surito Carito
His age is listed as "1605" but that's not really informative when he spent over 1500 years of it in enchanted stasis, and we don't have a set year for the sealing of the Wanderer's Palace (or at least I couldn't find one) so I can't even do the math to find out how old he 'actually' is.
Also should his race be "Lalafell (Nymian)" or does Plainsfolk cover that?
PAGE: 243 (Astrologian)
HEADING: Leveva Byrde; Jannequinard de Durendaire
SORRY, PET TOPIC.
I've written about this in detail previously (and also in the Localisation forum, somewhat briefer), but the information given in both characters' profiles doesn't match up with what is said in the astrologian quests.
The issues with Leveva's profile were brought up early in this thread (post #18) and got an official response from Fernehalwes (#27) but unfortunately that only addressed one of several points.
Both characters' listed ages are younger than the quest dialogue implies, and the timing of events has been changed. I suspect this may be an attempt to adjust information so it matches up with the apparent intent (or misunderstanding due to conflicting/vague information) that Jannequinard is Carvallain's younger brother, but the quest script as it currently exists in the game makes this impossible. Janne has to be at least in his forties. (Meanwhile the text on p.157 about the count possibly remarrying to produce another heir, makes more sense if Janne is not Charlemend's son, but his brother.)
But setting aside other lore tangles and just comparing the lorebook information and astrologian quests:
- Leveva's age: 16 - she was actually born at the time of the backstory events, "almost twenty years ago"
- her father died a "few years" after her birth - he died in the backstory, at the same time she was born
- (if the timeline IS being officially rewritten, one of the above lorebook statements should probably become correct, but not both)
- discussed earlier in this topic: Fernehalwes' clarification on Leveva's mother (that her real mother died and she was adopted by her aunt) now contradicts the lorebook information that she was taken in by her grandfather after being orphaned.
- Jannequinard's age: 32 - doesn't work with the setting of the backstory events "almost twenty years ago" as he would be only 12-13 at that point. Other dialogue suggests he is currently at least in his 40s, and he seems to be a young adult in the backstory.
- he was in Sharlayan at the time of the evacuation - makes more sense with his age according to this profile (that would make him 17 by this version) but the quest script specifically mentions he was there well prior to those events, and before the Sharlayans' attitude to foreigners changed to be more isolationist.
PAGE: 301 (Bestiary: Elementals)
HEADING: Phurble
Discussed earlier in this topic by someone asking if they were meant to be voidsent (as from previous lore statements) or elementals as listed here, but - not knowing about that previous information - I thought their placement as elementals seems strange. The description at the top of the page says they are "beings almost solely comprised of pure aether" and everything else on the page fits that description, but phurbles appear to be something more physical, particularly as they are hunted (in-game as well as by lore) for their blood and fur. I would have assumed they are beastkin.
PAGE: 301 (Bestiary: Elementals)
HEADING: Faerie
It describes Eos and Selene as "two distinct varieties" of faerie - firstly, does that mean that all faeries (not just the player's faerie Lily) take on both these aspects? And also it would be better to word that so it's clear they are two aspects of one being and not two separate 'clans'. Unless of course your intent is that the "writer of the book" didn't realise that by observing them!