(09-22-2015, 01:37 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: How do we know that any of the text relating to vampires is actually in-lore, however? There's been item text that, at first glance seems completely real, yet the devs themselves have come out and stated its non-canon nature. That is, Fantasia. So if Fantasia and the resulting flavor text isn't canon, what exactly is stopping somebody from asserting that a similar situation couldn't be happening with flavor text of another item?
It's also worth noting that some things don't really have any reason to be canon, like the wind-up FF1 sprites and the pointer hand.
They've got flavor text, but their purpose is pretty clearly just Nostalgia Factor without any further implications.