The illiteracy does make a lot of sense given the setting. I'd imagine most people don't need to read to survive in Eorzea.
At the same time, having had a character that had grown up in Ishgard, I'd imagine each city-state's richer families would probably have been educated. I would also have expected Garlemald to have had the class to educate its people, pridefully of their culture, and to add studies of Eorzean culture for the military.Â
As such, Franz would be able to read and write, but it would either come out as flowy, over-garnished Ishgardian script, or the cold, hard and rather obviously Garlean script.
Granted, people who play within the scope of the Echo are also gifted with understanding all languages, so I would have to assume that adventurers with the Echo are fully literate in whatever they want to read. (Must be nice, reading all the Old High Allagan instructions on how to destroy the world with darkness)
At the same time, having had a character that had grown up in Ishgard, I'd imagine each city-state's richer families would probably have been educated. I would also have expected Garlemald to have had the class to educate its people, pridefully of their culture, and to add studies of Eorzean culture for the military.Â
As such, Franz would be able to read and write, but it would either come out as flowy, over-garnished Ishgardian script, or the cold, hard and rather obviously Garlean script.
Granted, people who play within the scope of the Echo are also gifted with understanding all languages, so I would have to assume that adventurers with the Echo are fully literate in whatever they want to read. (Must be nice, reading all the Old High Allagan instructions on how to destroy the world with darkness)
