Launch Trailer Hype Thread

[Mysteltain]

Well, as I continue through the story on my alt, I am further reminded of why I really dislike discussions of what is canon or not. Do we take the in-game text as gospel, or supplementary material? Did we defeat the Warring Triad alone, or did we heed our allies advice and "gather trusted companions/champions/allies" to us in aid of our cause? Is the text in the duty finder the truth? I find it hard to beieve after 60 levels that the game needs to remind us to use it. And, please correct me in I'm wrong, but didn't Koji mention once how the lore book is written from the perspective of an Eorzean scholar/historian, and as such they only know somewhat more than the average person? Plus, historians have been known to make certain "embellishments" in their documentations (looking at you, Ancient Greece). So, for all we know this scholar is just assuming that we did this on our own to further our legend.

I understand that a lot of what I'm doing is nitpicking (and I do love playing Devil's Advocate), but at the same time I fully agree that, should we treat the lore book as canon, then how the hell can we be beaten by anything less than overwhelming numbers or some other form of unfair odds or handicap? But if we treat in-game lore as canon, well, we're inconsistently powerful (but never on the level of a demi-god without assistance from the Mother Crystal) with allies who seem to be conveniently absent when we're in danger after any given fight (such as Bismark). Obviously those inconsistancies can be swept away with head-canon or assumptions, but do we really want to go down that route?