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(09-22-2015, 01:49 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:(09-22-2015, 01:44 PM)Val Wrote:(09-22-2015, 01:42 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: It could be argued that in the case of novelty stuff, it's there for amusement or costuming more than establishing lore. This is what I'm getting at. Flavor text =/= truth, as it has been used not only in XIV, but many other games and things to add.. well. Flavor. If you don't have sound lore, you shouldn't be going to the flavor text to find it like some kind of starved crack-fiend. It's the fault of the devs for not making it clear and abundant. The fact that one case of joke flavor text exists means that others must.
The challenge then becomes declaring what's a novelty and what is not.
Multiple items mention "vampire" in some form, complete with the trappings of the myth as we know it. It's not exactly the same case of Fantasia, which isn't referenced by anything else. Sure, we could say the cephalapod is joke flavor text, but the vampire fish? Reference to vampire bats? The term "vampire" had to come from somewhere, and not all of those descriptions get silly joke language in them.
We have no hard confirmation, but we have multiple soft ones, coming from things that are completely unrelated and all showcasing the same themes.
The term "vampire" could easily just be taken as a name because of its real-world denotation. It's easy to recognize and you know immediately what it entails. Until an actual vampire pops up somewhere, all we have remotely close to that are voidsent that prey on aether. This, of course, has been offered to the OP countless times but it wasn't good enough.
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