The Lore Library

[Anonymoose]

How much is everyone expecting from this?

Have you ever known someone that tended to use pronouns without first introducing the noun to the conversation? (Ex. "Can you go get that for me?" without telling you what "that" is?) V1 did the lore equivalent of that on occasion, making references to terms and places without any mention of what they were or why we should care.

Hell, part of the reason the Lore Forum now exists is because when all else failed, we'd sometimes sneak into Localization and say, "Hey, this is too ambiguous. What gives?" and Ferne's responses were always wildly popular when he'd humor us and explain what a soulkin actually is or why we should care if something came from "the Void."

I only expect two things from a lore library:

(1) They use it to tie up accidental loose ends and explain ambiguities in style. Things they mentioned out of context, places they mentioned that have no info, hints about how game mechanics work... They can even use it to foreshadow future lands, magicks, and jobs without needing to pigeonhole the story into an NPC or a quest they didn't plan on.

(2) It's a cool place to hang out. If you make an out-of-the-way area in any zone, city or field, that is unique and interesting, people will hang out there and take screenshots of it.

(Hell, I still hold a few molecules of hope that Rapture Bar will be a thing. (EDIT:) Now that I read it again for the first time since 2011, one of the possibilities on that list is a Lore Library! What if it has the multicolor bricks and potted plants and dim lighting and wrought iron!? There could even be a soothing fountain for ambiance! I'M HYPERVENTILATING. I NEED A PAPER BAG.)

If SE decides to go above and beyond and fill it full of stand-alone information you can't get elsewhere, that's awesome, too! Imagine if some books in the library were "locked" until you found the info out in "the world."

[Xeia]

Though I think you should only be able to research (ie look-up) the different subjects once you have unlocked them, ie completed certain quests.

That'd be a bit more fun than just turning up to a room and having 10,000 things to click on and read.

Imagine if some books in the library were "locked" until you found the info out in "the world."

What if you could "collect" books for the library? There were books in v1 that you could find and read, but it didn't really do anything. What if there are tons more scattered all about the world and as you read them you "pick them up and bring them back to the library" thus allowing for us to have a convenient place to access anything we'd already found without just being inundated with more information than even the Moosiest of us could handle at once.

And maybe special library-only books could appear as a reward for completing a "set." Like you talk to the librarian and he/she says, "Oh, an adventurer brought this book by a while ago. It looked similar to some of the ones you'd brought in, I thought you might be interested." ..And then they hand us the final volume of the encyclopedia we'd been collecting and it drops some crazy lore bombs on us and... and... and...

[Anonymoose]

What if you could "collect" books for the library?

You know how levequests are marked once you've done them at least one time? What if every time you completed a Necrologos levequest, you were able to recover a few of pages from the destroyed possessed copy, thus helping the Library build a non-possessed, complete version of the text? You could get rewards for completing certain sets of "chapters." Maybe there'd be a low-level set of Necrologos vanity gear... or a Necrologos minion that followed you around like the books in Nier? (Great title, lore-wise, published by SE, if you haven't played it.)

[Catapult]

or a Necrologos minion that followed you around like the books in Nier?

@_@

Cannot unsee, or unthink, and WANT!