(12-26-2013, 03:07 AM)Faye Wrote: I didn't really get Midlanders being more intelligent than any race from any of the lore. If anything, I figured Elezen and Lalafell would be the more scholarly races.
Granted Elezen do have higher intelligence stat-wise in game-Midlander Hyur and Lalafell being tied for second-but I'm looking at it from the lore pages from pre-release. Which...is looking really bad for me because I'll be damned if I can find them, I can only find the references off of several wikis that for all I know may have been cut 'n pasted from a rambling mad mans blog. Although these guys (http://ffxivrealm.com/wiki/hyur/)Â posted sources and have a very thorough page in my opinion.Â
But from what I can gather is that during the three great migration which brought the Hyur to Eorzea, they brought with them sophisticated technology. what constitutes sophisticated tech? Don't ask me, could be indoor plumbing for all I know, and it's crap compared to Garlean Magitek and Allagan everything. And this next part is speculation, but I take it that Elezen are more wise than intelligent due to an enlongated life span. Now don't get me wrong, Coerthas has a huge library devoted to astrology and the like but the feel of it overall is that of a massive record storehouse that uses the more mystical aspects of the science of astrology to try and foretell the future paired with logs on dragons and dravians. A purely single-minded pursuit instead of a treasure trove of earthly knowledge.
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