(11-06-2015, 04:00 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(11-06-2015, 03:51 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: The Miqo'te lore states that some Keepers of the Moon can trace their names back to the First Astral Era. But that predates the Allagans by a few calamities.
Drat, I forgot about that. Well, that blows a hole in the side of the idea, unless we're willing to accept that that's a commonly believed fact or developed prior to the recent Allagan revelations. On the one hand, the devs have done this before (the naming conventions were something of a retcon themselves, as 1.0 players will tell you, and some of the "unreliable narration" smells of retcons), but the on the other, I don't want to second-guess the lore as written.
XIV: It's Not Fantasy, It's Post-Apocalyptic Superhero Sci-Fi. I'm surely not the only person who's noticed genre similarities between XIV and Numenera, for instance?
EDIT: Ah, I reread the post on naming conventions, and it says: "It is said that some of these surnames have survived since the First Astral Era."
Curious.
It's the speculation of some heavy lore types *cough*Anonymoose*cough* that if it says stuff like "It is said" that you have to treat it as word of mouth in the game, which means that it can be faulty. His words "It's canon misinformation - an SE-sanctioned lie told to you from the point of view of as far as Eorzeans know and the Elezen claim. The lore team for FFXIV saw that many games contain books, NPCs, and system interactions that imply this impossible omniscience about the game's world, and they didn't want Eorzea to be like that. Sometimes a revelation is meant to clear up an unknown and help you understand, sometimes you're getting a false prophet telling you what's apparent to them at the time."
Some stuff similar to that train of thought here.
Sometimes I wish I was on Excalibur to pick Anonymoose's brains. Or hyperion *whispers*Sounsyy*
