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Recoil · **01-10-2015, 08:58 PM**

His father taught him to read.

Writing never played a substantial part in his life growing up, so there was never a need to go the extra lengths of having somebody teach him the ability. Nevertheless, he eventually taught himself. He's a pretty piss poor writer, but it's at least somewhat legible and grammatically on point.

Salty Lake · **01-10-2015, 09:41 PM**

My character is also illiterate because she grew up in a fishing village where nobody was educated. More recently, she became the head of security at a FC, so she has an NPC teenage lalafell apprentice who reads and writes on her behalf.

Jazz Egi · **01-10-2015, 09:43 PM**

Tallera was taught by her mother, Tabitha, who was taught by her mother Toloulah, who was taught by her mother Tiressa, who taught herself because people were smarter back in the day godsdammit. At least, that's what Tally'd tell you.

Leomoon · **01-11-2015, 02:12 AM**

Tana spent time with the Flames as well the Twin adder and lived in Gridania for several years in her late adulthood but from the most part being out in the desert and the only major authority around is the C clan she is mostly self taught.

Zyrusticae · **01-11-2015, 02:59 AM**

T'rahnu's parents were literate.

Why were they literate? They went to a school, of course. What school? I'm afraid I can't answer that, because seriously there is so much stuff in Eorzea that we know nothing about because it's never elaborated on that there's no point trying to put any level of detail into things like this grr grr blarghy blargh.

In all seriousness, I like to think one of her extended family members/tribe members was a learned scholar who put it upon his or herself to teach everyone everything he or she possibly could whenever. One of those types who brushes off "but I'm not really interested!" with "oh, but you WILL be!" every time. And then somehow gets his or her way. Every time.

Well, T'rahnu is the naturally curious sort so she'd probably accept free lessons any day of the week. That's just how she rolls.

Vysce the Lad · **01-11-2015, 03:55 AM**

Caen learned how to read and write from a collection of people, including his mother before she passes away in the Calamity. He still can't write very well at all and can't read big words.

Ruran · **01-11-2015, 04:57 AM**

Locke was taught by his life-long friend, a Lalafell named Romimo. She would read stories to him when he was little, and he eventually got curious enough to start learning words here and there until he became fully literate. That thirst for knowledge!

Keroascrazy · **01-11-2015, 08:31 AM**

taught in her earlier years by those at the ossuary who were able to recognize her potential for thaumaturgy.
can't be a good student if you don't understand the material.

Izayoi · **01-11-2015, 04:06 PM**

Iza was trained by her mother, and her tutors in general when she was young.Â

Not really decided for Inori yet, she is still a bit of a work in progress.

Tiergan · **01-11-2015, 05:33 PM**

Lurial learned how to read/write while studying arcanum (one would think learning to read and write would be pretty important to being an arcanist carrying around a book all the time).

Tiergan learned to read and write because one of the privileges he received by being the 'Alpha' slave of his pens was the opportunity to educate himself on whatever he requested. He instantaneously wanted to read and write because he was enamored with the eloquent way an educated Ala Mhigan general once spoke before the city's fall.

Leilani knows how to read/write because her father is an archaeologist (and thus has to keep meticulous records of the things he finds) and her mother is a linguist of sorts that is capable of translating and transcribing ancient texts/tablets into Common tongue. Both parents taught their children the skill.

Furious Storm knows how to read and write, because I made him able to do so in order to communicate with people ( mute guy running around with a note pad ) only to find out way later that the devs decided most of Eorzea is illiterate. :V So I don't really know how he learned. I just assume that he somehow got someone to teach him once he was made mute.

ALL THAT SAID, I kind of can't help but feel like Ferne sort of arbitrarily decided most of Eorzea can't read despite all of the writing that is all over Eorzea. Fortunately, in the same thread where Fernehalwes reveals that literacy rates are low, further down he also mentions that 'No Entry" signs are for adventurers , implying that literacy rates amongst adventurers might higher than normal (possibly because of all the crazy work they're normally doing?).

This explains all of the sign posts, road signs (that don't have any other identifying symbols for folks who can't read), building signs, and hunt mark bills that all have writing on them, but would be wasted on the vast majority of the Eorzean populace.

Places like Buscarron's Druthers isn't exactly going to get visited by much of anyone except Wailers and other folks living in the wood - yet it still has a big ole sign posted right out front. Perhaps it's purely there for the adventurers.

Caspar · **01-12-2015, 02:33 AM**

Hm, well, when Virara's teacher decided she was ready to be treated like a person rather than an animal, (Long story, lol) she took it upon herself to train her to be a Doman girl as well as a martial artist. However, her own training as a well adjusted lady was pretty spotty, being as crude as a Lominsan and being mostly self-educated. In areas such as knowledge of foreign cultures, etiquette and even the birds and the bees, Sensei slacked off due to virulent slothfulness.

So Virara can speak Doman very fluently, and has pretty good knowledge of Eorzean tongues, but is barely literate and her writing looks like a baby's scrawling. She's adept at picking up bits and pieces of foreign nomenclature via exposure, but hardly even knows anything about history or geography. She knows a lot about keeping herself healthy, but only recently even learned the difference between girls and boys. Vira's tendency to railroad onto one focus doesn't help things. She's quite perceptive and focused when learning, but tends to try to learn one thing by brute force, once at a time. She'd be a difficult student for almost any teacher to train... but I'd love to have a tutor for her in game at some point. I think it'd be fun.

Zac Evans · **01-12-2015, 05:00 AM**

Well, Midlanders are trained in their letters since infancy, so Zac was taught by a mother before and after chores with the aid of a thick wooden spoon for 'motivation' when he was lacking XD

Kellach Woods · **01-12-2015, 08:37 AM**

(01-11-2015, 05:33 PM)Tiergan Wrote: ALL THAT SAID, I kind of can't help but feel like Ferne sort of arbitrarily decided most of Eorzea can't read despite all of the writing that is all over Eorzea. Â Fortunately, in the same thread where Fernehalwes reveals that literacy rates are low, further down he also mentions that 'No Entry" signs are for adventurers , implying that literacy rates amongst adventurers might higher than normal (possibly because of all the crazy work they're normally doing?).

This explains all of the sign posts, road signs (that don't have any other identifying symbols for folks who can't read), building signs, and hunt mark bills that all have writing on them, but would be wasted on the vast majority of the Eorzean populace. Â

Places like Buscarron's Druthers isn't exactly going to get visited by much of anyone except Wailers and other folks living in the wood Â - yet it still has a big ole sign posted right out front. Â Perhaps it's purely there for the adventurers.

Keep in mind also that PCs tend to have higher literacy rates than most in RP because otherwise that cuts into A LOT of story-writing potential.

How many DMs gave Barbarians the ability to read in early DND3.0 because the Barb was being an obtuse prick about that?

And as you mention, an adventurer that can't read would have a hard time doing the following :
- Grand Company Hunts
- Leves (IIRC most of them are recorded on paper)
- Hunting Log (you know what it looks like, but not where it can maybe be found)
- Navigate a map
- etc.

It's safe to say that if you're an adventurer, you're at least a functioning illiterate person or you have someone to read for you. Which actually works btw - plenty illiterate folks are able to perform their duties if they have someone to read for them.

Berrod Armstrong · **01-12-2015, 09:02 AM**

(01-12-2015, 08:37 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote:
(01-11-2015, 05:33 PM)Tiergan Wrote: ALL THAT SAID, I kind of can't help but feel like Ferne sort of arbitrarily decided most of Eorzea can't read despite all of the writing that is all over Eorzea. Â Fortunately, in the same thread where Fernehalwes reveals that literacy rates are low, further down he also mentions that 'No Entry" signs are for adventurers , implying that literacy rates amongst adventurers might higher than normal (possibly because of all the crazy work they're normally doing?).

This explains all of the sign posts, road signs (that don't have any other identifying symbols for folks who can't read), building signs, and hunt mark bills that all have writing on them, but would be wasted on the vast majority of the Eorzean populace. Â

Places like Buscarron's Druthers isn't exactly going to get visited by much of anyone except Wailers and other folks living in the wood Â - yet it still has a big ole sign posted right out front. Â Perhaps it's purely there for the adventurers.

Keep in mind also that PCs tend to have higher literacy rates than most in RP because otherwise that cuts into A LOT of story-writing potential.

How many DMs gave Barbarians the ability to read in early DND3.0 because the Barb was being an obtuse prick about that?

And as you mention, an adventurer that can't read would have a hard time doing the following :
- Grand Company Hunts
- Leves (IIRC most of them are recorded on paper)
- Hunting Log (you know what it looks like, but not where it can maybe be found)
- Navigate a map
- etc.

It's safe to say that if you're an adventurer, you're at least a functioning illiterate person or you have someone to read for you. Which actually works btw - plenty illiterate folks are able to perform their duties if they have someone to read for them.

Also also! There may be like a bajillion of us as players but our characters (the ones portrayed as adventurers, or those with links to such) still represent a small portion of Eorzea's population! It still fits with what Ferne said, so it's not really a bad thing if most of our folks can read or write.

g0ne · **01-12-2015, 09:08 AM**

Eleni learnt how to read and write from her grandmother, Nan, who raised her and with whom she spent nearly twenty years of her life.

In fact, pretty much everything Eleni is is because of her grandmother.Â Undecided

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