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(01-11-2016, 04:52 AM)Valeera Wrote: An objective examination of the lore we have been given reveals, frankly, very, very few instances of "<thing> can not be done; not by anyone by any means ever." When it comes to shutting doors on (let's call them "creative") ideas, the biases of the community factor in significantly more than any established lore.
My favorite example: in some thread a while back (I don't remember which specific one) someone brought up the existence of vampires in Eorzea. This was followed by citations of various item descriptions that alluded to numerous common vampire myths (turning into bats, drinking blood etc.) that would be known to Eorzeans. Posters elected to completely ignore all the information (going as far as to say none of it was "real" lore) presented in order to maintain their position that vampires could not possibly exist in Eorzea.
If it isn't stated in quests or other in-game text, or drawn from official sources (like the devs themselves), then I'm not sure it counts as "real" lore.
If it is stated in the quests or other in-game text, or is drawn from official sources (like the devs themselves), then calling it "not real lore" would, of course, be silly.
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