Contents of Allagan Tomestones

[Zohar_Lahar]

I've been wondering what kinds of computer data are stored on the myriad Allagan Tomestones we trade to Rowena's girls. Poetics for example has been persisting so long, yet I doubt it's merely poetry....

Is this likely an accurate guess?

Philosophy tomestones = philosophical musings?
Mythology tomestones = archive of myths and legends recorded in Third Astral Era
Soldiery tomestones = Allagan military data
Poetics tomestones = Arts, entertainment, video games, etc. of ancient Allag
Law tomestones = Allagan legal documents
Esoterics tomestones = esoterica (?)
Lore tomestones = history and geography as known during Third Astral Era
Scripture tomestones = ancient religious texts
Verity tomestones = truth and lies?
Creation tomestones = Crafting techniques and recipes? (would explain the Lost Allagan gear)

[Anonymoose]

Have you noticed that they mirror the growth of civilization?

Philosophy - Wondering about things
Mythology - Belief systems form
Soldiery - Organized warfare and states
Poetics - Art rises from safety and structure
Law - Rules and standards form
Esoterics - Political inner circles, trade secrets, confidentiality
Lore - Education and experience give way to traditions
Scripture - Loose belief systems become rigid and organized
Verity - Truth
Creation - Knowledge of existence, trespass on the activities of the gods

I wonder if this was intentional or if I'm just seeing things, lol.

Where do you go after Creation? Enlightenment? Divinity? Transcendence? ... Strife? Rebellion? Collapse?

Maybe it's not Creation, just creation - decent technology. There'd be a lot farther to go from there. Exploration, discovery, academia and so on until you get to actual Creation ... Allagan Tomestones of Genesis at LV99? Rowena activates a brain trust and board of directors for the House of Splendors, Gerolt's bar tab mysteriously vanishes, neither are ever seen again?

[Eyvhokan]

Maybe away from Allag, and we can start it again. As an example, if it were Omega themed: Omegan Tomestones of Poetics and so on.

[BlakeWolfe]

Whenever we get to the New World west of Vylbrand, I wonder if we'll get something other than Allagan tomestones... then find a stone with Allagan carvings instigating the question of who got there first.

If we go south towards Meracydia, we'll likely still find Allagan tomes left over from the war. If going into Ilsabard we'll definitely be finding more Allagan tomes, the Garleans found tomes in their neck of the world after all.

[Rongway]

Have you noticed that they mirror the growth of civilization?

Are the square tomestones not older than the long ones we've been collecting since 2.0? This was at least the impression I got. Advances in data storage technology led to the High Capacity Tomestone and the Micro Tomestone, but the tomestones of verity and of creation share a form factor with the Early Model Tomestone, which suggests that the Stormblood tomestones are actually older than the ones we're used to.

Maybe truth and creation are meant to come before everything else.

[Yasminou]

Creation - Knowledge of existence, trespass on the activities of the gods

I wonder if this was intentional or if I'm just seeing things, lol.

Where do you go after Creation? Enlightenment? Divinity? Transcendence? ... Strife? Rebellion? Collapse?

Maybe it's not Creation, just creation - decent technology. There'd be a lot farther to go from there. Exploration, discovery, academia and so on until you get to actual Creation ... Allagan Tomestones of Genesis at LV99? Rowena activates a brain trust and board of directors for the House of Splendors, Gerolt's bar tab mysteriously vanishes, neither are ever seen again?

In French, the new tomestones are of Cosmogony, so explicitly the Universe creation. The German translation seems to follow the English according to Google Translate while the Japanese one while it seems that in Japanese these are the tomestones of "All Things".

[Anonymoose]

Are the square tomestones not older than the long ones we've been collecting since 2.0?

An excellent point!

And enough to make me wonder if the names are following the age of the tomestone or the stage of the Final Fantasy XIV Token System.

Could interpret the names either way; Allag would be that arrogant, lol.

Hmmm.

[Akonyl]

Porn.

All of it.

[Elladie]

Despite being a lore addict, none of this had occurred to me at all. Now I feel terrible for handing over all my tomes to Rowena for shinies instead of taking them back to my study and writing down all the information on them! And what, by the Twelve, is Rowena doing with them?! Is she amassing all this information with a view to world domination? Will Rowena turn out to be the final boss of FFXIV?! I am very suspicious now ...

[Cilia]

Junk data. All of it. Xande's kill schedule. Fireside chats between Amon and Allag's citizens. Scylla's diary. Etc.

I mean, someone should have developed a new superweapon or something with all of those tomestones by this point if it was anything else... or they're all corrupted, and someone keeps hoarding them hoping maybe this one...