So .... What's the Lore?

[JusticeReborn]

Why play a FF game if you are just going to skip all the story? If you are to lazy to pay attention to what is going on I don't see why others should fill you in.

Amen to this. I was thinking the same thing as I read the original post.

I did a write-up of the story for those that actually didn't play 1.0 but saw the video and were curious. But for those that DID play, and yet just skipped everything and never read it? Sorry, I've got no pity for you.

[Leowilde]

Oh, and you probably want to check out this: a very nice compilation of cutscenes in chronological order.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...gacy-of-Eorzea

[Hachi-Roku]

Here's the cliff's notes:

Empire starts invading Eorzea.
Beastmen summon Primals to help them fight off you/the empire, you helpfully defeat them much to the Empire's delight.
City states revive Grand Companies to stop the Empire.
Empire summons Dalamud to fall.
You do a bunch of stuff but you're way too late.
Dalamud falls and is no moon: Bahamut breaks free and messes up everyone's deal.
You're teleported to the future.
^--- This is the now.
This is the future ---v
A Realm Reborn begins.

[Draxis_Fallspear]

I'll actually be launching a lore-bank soon that encompasses all of 1.X - I'm just waiting to get a few crucial answers before I really start giving it a go.

In the meantime, do you have any specific questions?

Do we know how all the races came to be united? Were there wars/conflicts between the races? Any idea where the Duskwights' main city/encampment were?

All and all, I feel like there wasn't that much lore put out about the races; but I spent so much time trying to catch up with levelling and getting as much of the GC quests done as possible that I missed alot of the regular quests and the basic lore that goes with it.

[KaiTBF]

Do we know how all the races came to be united? Were there wars/conflicts between the races? Any idea where the Duskwights' main city/encampment were?

All and all, I feel like there wasn't that much lore put out about the races; but I spent so much time trying to catch up with levelling and getting as much of the GC quests done as possible that I missed alot of the regular quests and the basic lore that goes with it.

I've never heard anything about a race war, all the races seem to be pretty accepting of one another.

As for the Duskwights, they're cave dwellers who split off from the other Elezen when Gridania was founded, they're pretty reclusive and they "despise the shackles of urban life," so I can't imagine them gathering in an encampment, let alone a city.

[DubstepNinja]

As for the Duskwights, they're cave dwellers who split off from the other Elezen when Gridania was founded, they're pretty reclusive and they "despise the shackles of urban life," so I can't imagine them gathering in an encampment, let alone a city.

In FF11 we lived in a mighty kingdom

.. in FF14 we live in .... a cave

I am REALLY gonna enjoy my cardboard box house in ARR..

[Rex]

Just the fact that you played since Launch time. You don't know anything about the story..meaning you had no idea what you were watching with the latest END trailer...

I just. I can't understand. I'm not trying to be mean. But...you have 161 posts in the forums..which means you've been to the lodestone....which means you HAD to have known the game was coming to an end....why didn't you go back and watch them in the inn room? or something. Even skipping cutscenes...by being here for so long you should have known SOMETHING...

[Valmonte]

In FF11 we lived in a mighty kingdom

.. in FF14 we live in .... a cave

I am REALLY gonna enjoy my cardboard box house in ARR..

aint nothing wrong with the cave...if its good enough for batman its good enough for me.

[Angelas]

Most people talk about skipping CS but they tend to forget that some people, like myself, were stuck with that crashing bug that the game had since day 1... sometimes I have to skip the CS to avoid a crash.. the ones I didnt skip would crash mid-CS.. so unfortunately due to the design flaws that couldnt be fixed on the user end.. I was one of those unfortunate people who didnt have the option of always watching the CS

[KimimiAvesta]

I've been in the situation myself where I'd have liked to watch a cutscene but the other seven people I'm with have already seen this battle/place 12482365482 times and have run off without me while I try to soak up the atmosphere.

Also, people coming back for Legacy status had the problem of being short on time, short on friends and with a ton of catching up to do before Dalamud fell - probably better to read up on everything after than go sightseeing and miss out on fancy weapons/GC seals/quests/materia/levelling, etc.