Origin of the Enchiridion?

[RobinMalvin]

While we're waiting for Moose to dig into it, allow me to post my thoughts on this topic.

After exploring the ruins of Dravania Forelands and Churning Mist for awhile, I don't find any depictions of Halone, or any god of the Twelve. Instead, images and statues of dragons are found almost at every part of the ruins. The exceptions in this are the giant statue of Mother of The Sheave, presumably meant to depict Shiva, and the giant fan in Sohr Kai which has a depiction of woman on it though we don't know who the woman is supposed to be. Also, names of most of the places in those areas are mostly written in Draconic instead of Eorzean tongue, even though it's shown in Moogle quest that the tongue and alphabet has been used at that time.

So my take in this is that the fixation to worship Halone didn't exist in pre-Ishgard society but actually something that's relatively new, founded alongside the church and the Four High Houses to bury the truth of the Dragonsong War. The choice of Halone as the object of worship is more likely deliberate. After all, what god is better to pick to make your followers believe that you're fighting a holy crusade than the war goddess herself?

I'm more inclined to pick a combination of possibility two and three. Enchiridion is likely an ancient text, dating back as far as Fifth Astral Era if not even longer. But with the neglect of worship at the end of Fifth Astral Era and the Calamities, it's entirely possible for the contents of the text to be scattered, forgotten and lost, resulting in many versions of the text.

It's possible Ishgard has somehow come into possession of some of the original text and added some new things inside to further their propaganda against the dragons, though they apparently also added some new teachings written by their saints. It's also possible they simply wrote the entire text from scratch and claimed it as Enchiridion, the must have handbook for worshippers of Halone, to again, further their goal.