What areas of lore would you like to see more of?

[Shurrikhan]

What current areas or prospects of lore, or even entirely new possibilities, would you like to see covered more or enter the game? How? Through short-story posts, in-game plotlines, hinted lore?



Additionally... has anyone tried their own hand at any XIV-themed creative writing, for shits-and-giggles or otherwise?

[Jhett_Magnum]

Definitely want to know about the third clan of au ra. Koji mentioned it a while back. Maybe in the 4.x series.

[Anonymoose]

I think it was wise to bring a lot of "classical" Final Fantasy flavor to XIV to infuse it with nostalgia and history while things were revamped and propped up, but in the end, I'd like to see it all circle back around and raise OG XIV themes back up for a while. We're well beyond accusations of reinventing the wheel and they should be able to stand on their own.

"Bigger and better" has a tendency to eventually undermine a story's foundations, after all.

The Ascian arc has the most on the line, but it's also the most invisible. Hopefully it can be ended before it draws out overlong, but not in a way that feels like the game itself should be over. I want to see it come back around to Sharlayan and Mor Dhona, and ("with the reins of history in the hands of man") force us to start cleaning up things we never thought we'd have to deal with, or never even knew got band-aided over during the war of the crystals.

I want to know what was up with the giant sea serpents and why they're so much of an anomaly yet so irrelevant to the story.

I want to see piracy rise again in the New World's "Carribean", even if for a while we only hear the tales in Lominsa as crews come and go and the status quo shifts.

I want to see the Elementals / woodsin / greenwrath / wildlings explored again as the forest struggles to recover.

I want to see a few of those "better" legions of the Empire that exist only in hearsay.

I want to see whatever Garlemald actually is (for better or worse) rather than seeing it vicariously through the eyes of the conquered and the brutes they send to control its fringes.

EDIT: Oh, and I want some more of the old, boring clothes back, lol. Eorzean chic is increasingly polarized between [new, flashy, exciting, expensive] and [dirt poor, often not even clean]. Meanwhile, too many pieces that are still missing; the bliauds with variable broaches and chains, wooden (half-)masks without gems, upper tiers of ALC gown-jackets with the shoulderpads. Magnifiers never made a meaningful comeback. 2017 and you still can't dress fully like a 'Cuda officer or Wood Wailer or anything.

[Enkidoh]

I want to see the Elementals / woodsin / greenwrath / wildlings explored again as the forest struggles to recover.

I definitely agree with you Moose! 1.0 Gridanian society was so much different to what we have in ARR it makes me wonder just how much is still canon and what has been quietly handwaved or retconned away.

Most importantly, I want to know what happened with Duncan and Khrimm, what happened to Khrimm's parents and their 'secret mission' they were willing to be labelled as pariahs to provide a cover story for, the elementals and woodsin playing a more major role in how the spoken races interact with the forest, whether it was an Ascian attacking the Wood Wailers to stir up trouble, how Yda and Papalymo were able to capture Duncan with little effort.

All these things are big question marks to me and I would love to see them resolved or at least given some form of closure eventually.

EDIT: Oh, and I want some more of the old, boring clothes back, lol. Eorzean chic is increasingly polarized between [new, flashy, exciting, expensive] and [dirt poor, often not even clean]. Meanwhile, too many pieces that are still missing; the bliauds with variable broaches and chains, wooden (half-)masks without gems, upper tiers of ALC gown-jackets with the shoulderpads. Magnifiers never made a meaningful comeback. 2017 and you still can't dress fully like a 'Cuda officer or Wood Wailer or anything.

This too! Although not really lore connected 1.0 armour designs did have a certain utility to them that current armour designs have eschewed in favour of bizzare, even alien, styling, to the game's detriment. I especially miss plain tabards without those silly breastplates and shoulderpads - I'm glad I still have my old dated ones with that basic design but not being able to dye them is an issue. But really, just some new basic armour that is nice looking but not over the top would be a change of pace.

[Shurrikhan]

I definitely agree with you Moose! 1.0 Gridanian society was so much different to what we have in ARR it makes me wonder just how much is still canon and what has been quietly handwaved or retconned away.

Which is incredibly sad when you consider how tremendously ominous the concept of that area was with the Greenwrath and whatnot. Heck, had the 1.x ideas of the Black Shroud been remastered to be more traversable in its verticality, that place would have been truly awesome and unique, as compared to the simple staple dusty forests settings of most of ARR's Shroud.

[Enur]

More of the pre-allagan eras. The one that brought down the sun by oversaturated praise thus roasting all of thanalan is especially interesting to me.

Other than that, more flavour text. More every-day lore i guess you could call it.

[YianKutku]

More of the pre-allagan eras. The one that brought down the sun by oversaturated praise thus roasting all of thanalan is especially interesting to me.

I'm still confused by that one, due to the questions it raises about the actual existence of deities. Is it actually the people's fault? Or are historians just assuming the causes for that particular Calamity?

More broadly, I'd also like to know about both pre-Allagan eras, and the one post-Allagan era. Which works out to be any era that isn't Allagan, Magi, or the Sixth/Seventh Astral. Pre-Allagan might be less relevant to the present day due to being too long ago, but the Fourth Astral/Fifth Umbral is basically just "everyone hated knowledge, so nobody bothered to keep records".

If I were more cynical, I'd guess that the lack of information about 4A/5U is from the lore team running out of ideas, and just plastering a big "Nothing happened here, move along" sign over the gap.

[Okamimaru]

With the ability to swim I want to see what's in silvertear lake... I want more gelmora... sharlyan, thavnair,...more keepers and duskwhites

[ManuelBravo]

I would like to see more involvement with the relic story line. The story so far is great too bad it takes a while to release it. By the time it comes out it's almost on par with raid.

[FJerome]

I really want to explore more of the Shard Worlds, especially the three or so that still actually exist.

In terms of general aesthetics and cultures, we've seen almost all Real World cultures have Hydaelyn analogues now except anywhere from Sub-Saharan Africa so I'd like to see something like that in game.