[Suggestion] Historian system - Learn more about our world and more!

[Enkidoh]

The main problem with this however is actually caused by a particular problem in-universe - because the Calamities were so immensely destructive, they served as effective cultural reset-buttons that essentially wiped whole civilizations off the map, and even the events after often conspired to erase any real trace they even existed (the Sixth Calamity is an example, the three-way, later two-way, War of the Magi was so destructive on it's own, but the global Flood that was the actual Calamity and the resulting societal collapse afterwards where there was a backlash against not just magic but intelligence, saw to it that society across Hydaelyn and Eorzea especially collapsed into illiterate barbarism where even happening to be able to read would get you killed.). So no wonder little is known about even the societies that existed prior to the Sixth Astral Era.

Given things like the Unending Codex and, meta wise, the Encylopedia Eorzea, have a lot of guesswork and major gaps in knowledge, I don't see things changing too much (this also serves the development team well, it means less they have to retcon at a later date if they decide to change some detail in the lore to better reflect new content being added, which has happened quite frequently).

[hagare]

The main problem with this however is actually caused by a particular problem in-universe - because the Calamities were so immensely destructive, they served as effective cultural reset-buttons that essentially wiped whole civilizations off the map, and even the events after often conspired to erase any real trace they even existed (the Sixth Calamity is an example, the three-way, later two-way, War of the Magi was so destructive on it's own, but the global Flood that was the actual Calamity and the resulting societal collapse afterwards where there was a backlash against not just magic but intelligence, saw to it that society across Hydaelyn and Eorzea especially collapsed into illiterate barbarism where even happening to be able to read would get you killed.). So no wonder little is known about even the societies that existed prior to the Sixth Astral Era.

Given things like the Unending Codex and, meta wise, the Encylopedia Eorzea, have a lot of guesswork and major gaps in knowledge, I don't see things changing too much (this also serves the development team well, it means less they have to retcon at a later date if they decide to change some detail in the lore to better reflect new content being added, which has happened quite frequently).

I'd say that's more a reason to have archeologists rather than not.
It'd be cool too.
And have the excavation be like FF9's chocobo treasure lmao

Honestly, if after this arc is over.
I kinda want my WoL to be an adventurer who studies the past, legends and myths from all corners of eorzea.
An archeologist......... of light lmao