Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
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.
I don’t really need to look, it’s there lol.i was just moreso looking for it to be a bit more specific. I think it’s a bit disingenuous to paint it as she only sacrificed herself to create hydaelyn when in reality it was 12 followers whose souls she had wholly consumed, making them unable to reincarnate forever. I’m not here to start an argument though, i just think the entries need to be a little more specific and it left out a lot of details on things regarding her and paints a certain bias. It’s why i’m curious if it’s written in-universe or not.