Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
If you really want to keep on top of AST lore, you need to rerun that 30-50 storyline every expansion because of exactly this. Possibly several times because of mid-expansion revamps.

You're right that we're explicitly in the range where the WoL is making things up rather than learning from others (some jobs have been in that longer than others; I think DRG started improvising in the 50s), which does do a good job of explaining most of the weirder abilities. There's still a few weird ones--Solar Bahamut's probably the biggest--but just accepting that the WoL is good enough to start innovating new abilities themselves gets you plenty far.
Given the name of Solar Bahamut's attacks, I think it's pretty clear what it is. I agree with the rest of this though. And doesn't the game even stop doing the "Your soul resonates with the memories of X past" thing anyway?