It turns out Eureka Orthos has a lot of interesting lore

[Cleretic]

I think a big strength of lore and story in this game is that it's usually really accessible; Extremes and Savages all being explicitly non-canon mean that it's very rare that there's lore with difficulty in front of it.

But sometimes there is! And I think that's why I haven't seen anybody at all talk about Eureka Orthos' lore, even to the point where its lore isn't even documented anywhere on the internet that I could find outside of the game itself. Which is a shame, because this stuff is NUTS.

So I did it myself! I finished Eureka Orthos, and transcribed every single loredump you can get on the bosses. If you're inclined towards visuals, I made a video talking about it all:

https://youtu.be/DtTuZA_rIKw

But if you prefer to instead just read it all, I also put all the transcriptions up on Cohost:

https://cohost.org/Cleretic/post/214...-lore-eureka-o

(They're also up on Gamer Escape, because I know where I look for esoteric lore when the Encyclopedia Eorzea isn't talking!)

I usually don't post my videos here anymore, but I felt like I'd make an exception here, since I feel like this subforum would love all the implications of this lore, and doesn't have many other ways to learn about it.