(06-19-2015, 04:00 AM)Flickering Ember Wrote:That's a good point. Despite his word, nobody bought Greedo shooting first, so Word of God only goes so far if it makes no waves in the game itself.(06-17-2015, 11:18 PM)Mae Wrote:(06-17-2015, 05:36 PM)Suviyo Viyo Wrote:This is something I don't get, either. We have that statement from the Dev saying that literacy is rare... yet we have so many quests where we're passing notes around for people. Or putting up notices/posters. And then there's the actual Moogle Delivery Quests. And the 'newspaper' NPC's that pop up for some events. There's only one NPC (quest out in the Gold Bazaar) that I've ever encountered that, when trying to give them a flyer for work, actually said "I can't read". Everyone else, you give them a piece of paper and they read it.(06-17-2015, 02:53 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote: I have been thinking lately of how rare it is that I see people playing illiterate characters, even though literacy is considered rare in Eorzea.
You know, I've seen this stated in the forums here a few times while looking around and I'm a little confused about it. Is there anything in-game that supports the idea of a large number of illiterate people? Because... so far... all I've seen are examples of people being pretty literate in general. Books, logs, journals, letters, etc... all being passed around in quests.... Signs and posters on the walls... Wearable "reading glasses".... Books decorating buildings... etc...
There's also a statement in the Hyur character creation about how Midlanders are taught to read very young or "trained in letters from infancy" if you will.
The only thing I've seen to support illiteracy in game was a one-off statement from a game dev without much elaboration (or racial/regional/cultural specifics). Curious if anyone here could point to more examples from in-game text/lore to support this at all?
I'd LOVE to know though, because I'm thinking of having my character be pretty literate... or perhaps a "book nerd" if you will. It would be nice to know how odd/rare that kind of thing actually is amongst people (or Lalafell specifically) so I can RP appropriately.
I have to say for things like this, I don't go by what the dev tells me. I go by one very important phrase in fiction:
"Show, don't tell."
Now I know fernhalwes is a pretty swell and cool dude. He's given us tons of infos and lore.Â
If the author is totally insistent about their character or an element being a certain way, say for example, someone like George Lucas, and this conflicts from what we see in the story. What am I going to believe in as the audience?
What is being shown to me of course!
(Not a perfect example, I know, but it's 4 am T_T)
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