The Unending Codex

[Alleluia]

See, Hydaelyn’s entry was fine to me and completely in line with how I read her character. lol This codex actually seems to be avoiding the in-universe sources, potentially unreliable narrator style of the encyclopedias and is more a definitive, this is the story as intended thus far approach.

They still leave room for interpretation about things, but it also gives facts as the writing team intends them going forward. Or it’s more like “this is what the people and concepts we talk about here seem like to the characters currently”. And it’s open for updates and changes in the future as new revelations occur.

[Cleretic]

See, Hydaelyn’s entry was fine to me and completely in line with how I read her character. lol This codex actually seems to be avoiding the in-universe sources, potentially unreliable narrator style of the encyclopedias and is more a definitive, this is the story as intended thus far approach.

They still leave room for interpretation about things, but it also gives facts as the writing team intends them going forward. Or it’s more like “this is what the people and concepts we talk about here seem like to the characters currently”. And it’s open for updates and changes in the future as new revelations occur.

That guy you responded to used to have an explicitly anti-Hydaelyn signature, so he was outright looking for something painting Hydaelyn as a secret megavillain.

I believe a lot of the parts for existing figures like the Scions are based on the Encyclopedia Eorzea with some extra information from after those were published. Which would explain a lot about how they're written both in terms of structure and direction; the Encyclopedia Eorzea is written as an in-universe text by Eorzeans, so you have a very Eorzea-centric perspective on it all even when talking about things that started outside of it, like the Final Days or the First Brood. Which, incidentally, would also explain that poster's problem with the uncritical view of Hydaelyn; who in Eorzea would put to paper anything critical of her?

It also might mean an Encyclopedia Eorzea volume 3 down the pipeline, maybe? While a bunch of the stuff on the Scions and the like is amended from volumes one and two, there's some that are entirely new, albeit not including entirely new information.