Your Thoughts On "Encyclopaedia Eorzea" Books?

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I am an absolute sucker for "world companion" books. That means, though, that I'm easily embittered when the books are slapdash cash-grabs or outsourced hack-jobs. A lot of world-companions are letdowns. The Encyclopædias Eorzea blessedly are not. They're what a world-companion should be - a wealth of concept art and production blurbs stitched together and fleshed out into a coherent, thorough, thoughtful flow by the people who make the game itself. Quality-wise, they're the lore equivalent of Soken's "every track I made for this expansion" bluray soundtracks, and everyone who can should pick 'em up.

Alas... like all Bibles... they are not completely infallible.

When all is said and done, I have half a mind to fan-publish a classical style ERRATA supplement; a small packet noting errors and changes, or maybe even highlighting some of the deliberate misinformation the book's in-world tone spreads.