(10-18-2013, 12:06 AM)Olofantur Wrote: I agree in that creating a "side canon" would allow flexibility. Perhaps using a forum vote for pieces that are a wider in scope? This could work along the lines as the "Duskwight Clan" system on the wiki, with some changes of course, but a list of agreed upon works.
I also like the idea of pulling from IRL books, "All about Birds, an Eorzean guide to winged dangers." Just spit balling ideas, I think there's a lot of niche room as well which can be nice. Not everyone will read every tome in the Sacrarium so we can afford to have a few more whimsical texts.
Yeah, I just looked up the Duskwight Clans page and some sort of summary format like that could work.
And your second point would add a lot of flavor. Not just faux-heavy academic works, but all sorts of silliness to accompany the seriousness. While trying to maintain the lore as best we can, if there is anything that falls too far outside to be acceptable, we just call it fiction or say it's been debunked. After all, in our own world we don't just read and study things that everyone agrees are true (what a white whale that would be).
And several of the books under the literature tag could be linked through the summary page, as well. We could add and make distinctions between "side-canon" and "character-penned."
