(04-27-2016, 03:29 PM)Valence Wrote: Hey now i'm confused. One of the citations above (Jijina, whoever that is) says that tomestones have become useless due to their age and are only collector items now.
Why is that in the 3.0 SMN quests Y'Mithra clearly says "I shall consult my tomestones" countless times?
Jijina is one of Cid's Garlond Ironworks engineers. But the discrepancy goes back to deliberate misinformation from unreliable narrators. At the time, the Garlond Ironworks didn't know how to get the tomestones to work. And many of them didn't work. It's essentially like having a USB drive with no computer to plug it into.
Nael van Darnus knew how to read and use the tomestones. Y'mhitra and the Sons of Saint Coinach know how to read them now. Even the Grand Companies have data mammets used to extract data from the Allagan tomestones and monoliths on Seal Rock. But still, some tomestones are broken and are really nothing better than collectors items... or currency as far as a dealer in antiquities like Rowena are concerned.
