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FreelanceWizard · **10-21-2014, 05:20 PM**

I bet a fair amount of it is, especially among, say, Conjurers.

I decided to wander around a bit the other night and see where else writing shows up:

There's schedules and signage in the airship landings.
The airship landings also have lots of file drawers behind the desk.
One of the early quests outside the Gladiators' Guild has you putting posters up for a match, though there's no statement about any text on those.
You sign your name to the Adventurers' Guild roster in the starting quests, though you wouldn't need to be literate to do that (you could just "make your mark").
The hunt mark bills have "flavor" text on them, but that's not necessary to understand their purpose.
There's the ubiquitous "No Entry" signs.
The Observatorium and the Thaumaturges' Guild both have substantial libraries.
A certain mad Conjurer does some writing in blood in a particular Expert dungeon.
A market board would really have to use writing, though I think it's safe to say the board is just an abstraction for the act of "wandering the market" (which in 1.0 used to involve actually wandering the market ) and can be safely ignored.

It's interesting that there almost seems to be two classes of people in Eorzea with regards to literacy -- the small (and seemingly well-to-do or politically powerful) literate class and the larger illiterate masses. The places that cater to the first group, such as the airship services, have a lot more texts than those that don't.

Are there any libraries in Eorzea?

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