It finally turned up: The Encyclopedia Eorzea 3! Today, I’m digging into the entire thing, picking out every cool little fact I think is worth highlighting, be they new facts, confirmations of ambiguous things, or just stuff I never noticed before!
There’s not sections in this one, because I didn’t make this video in a way that’d make that possible for me. But honestly, I’m not sure how useful they’d be anyway.
Questions, suggestions, other cool Encyclopedia entries worth telling people about? Drop a comment here! You can find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Cleretic/, or at Cohost at https://cohost.org/Cleretic/ (when I remember to use it), or on Bluesky (which I remember even less) at https://bsky.app/profile/cleretic.bsky.social!
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Ah, finally! Been waiting for a solid coverage of EE3. Thanks so much!
Great Video!
This video helped me realize how unique a position FFXIV is when it comes to their lore. Ever-evolving and really disciplined in the way they write and develop things. Kind of reminds me of an interview with Yoshida, Ishikawa & and Bari Oda where one of them mentioned how when writing for expansions before Stormblood (Cuz Stormblood is when it was figured out how the ending of Endwalker was going to happen, I'm going to guess in outline form), they used "Answers" as their anchor point in writing the story in the previous expansions. Kind of reminds me of a certain anchor point we learned in The Twelve alliance raid.
P.S. Is there any way to have a chat with ya btw? I'm curious about one day talking with ya about various topics within the FFXIV universe and about potential future expansion theories.
"The Ranso where the main race of Ronka, how did we not know this before?" Ah yes, the Shadowbringer's gatherer tribe questline. Its actually one of the few (if not the only) questline that actually has a different in-game lore implications based solely on the player's choice and it gives you the "Ronkan Historian" title for it's completion. The questline doesn't change drastically, but it does change how the NPCs view the history of Ronka. My friend and I were comparing the storylines based on the choices we were choosing at the time.
I need to get my hands on all of the encyclopedias at some point, because if nothing else these are great. That said I'd love a video on blue mage at some point. It'd be a fun one leading into Dawn trail since we're going to the home of it, and if nothing else the spell book is like a mini fish log for lore tidbits.
Thinking about that how bad is it, our in game lore references are a book on fish, the least respected spellcasting tradition, and someone else's travel journal.
I got my copy but I don’t have much time to read right now, so I will gobble up any videos you want to make about the contents lol
What I realized while reading it: Getting old sucks, the font is small and I probably need bifocals.
I was wondering about the conversation in the debate room in the phantom Amaurot… The debate that we witnessed was regarding the signs of the final days manifesting in some place far away. This implies that the ancients that we know weren't the only civilization on the planet as they considered this group being effected to be an "other" and they weren't sure on whether or not they should help them. Could this also mean that the other civilization may have been another species that one or more current race on the world descended from? As far as I know, the only species that we know were artificially created (usually by Allag) are non playable like the Naga or Ixal but the playable races have been represented on at least 2 – 3 other worlds.
Here something that confuses me reading this book. The Draco/Monitor is a scalekin that exist in the first of Lakeland. "It earn it name for it resemblance to dragons of legend." was that a name Sharlyan gave it? Or were there dragons in the First? If there were dragons in the first, how did they get there? We had always assume Dragons arrived after the sundering.
Thank you for this video.
hello new lore reader… cool Take a like & a subscribe.
Thanks for sharing these great facts, it's honestly a treat and a great incentive for me to buy them! (wish I had the space though…)
Fantastic job! If you ever want to collab, please let me know! I'd love to talk FFXIV with you sometime!
Heya cleretic, how's you eo solo going?
woah I've seen you on the forums. Didn't know you had a channel!
i loved the hrothgar and (somewhat newish) viera lore! as a male viera i was pretty content. (even tho i knew about what they gave us). also, the ronka lore was nice! and i also was amused about the "unknowable horror" that is the Beaver, still LMAO. lastly, i'm your 900th subscriber! 😀 excited to see what you have in store! ^^
Everything bozja would be hot, but I might be ok to wait for that to be half of everything Hrothgar