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Alright folks, I'm back in town and I've got a couple of ideas (titles, authors, and basic outlines) that I'd like to share with you, one and all. I invite all input and ideas from whosoever is interested in the subject (similar and different). If this sort of thing is going well, once we've been sufficiently vetted, we can make the wiki a reality and start working some of our productions into our RP. Here's my first three contributions:
De potentia primorum (or On the Power of the Primals), by Ariston Lecton
-A twenty-two volume encyclopedia on the Primals,penned by a famous Midlander philosopher.Â
Every pair of volumes presents Lecton’s findings on the Primals and the beastmen tribes that summon them following two decades of travel and interviewing. The twenty-first volume treats the Egi and the final is a collection of Lecton’s philosophical musings on the subjects collated in the previous twenty-one volumes. A massive undertaking, On the Power of the Primals never achieved wide circulation due to its enormous volume and the prodigious complexity of Lecton’s highly philosophical style. It is incredibly rare to find all twenty-two volumes collected in the same place and it is much more commonly preserved by pairs of volumes at institutions of learning across Eorzea. As such, very few may claim to have read the opus in its entirety; instead, most individuals’ familiarity with its contents comes by way of bibliographic citation and reference in other, arguably simpler works.
Summa aetheriae (or Summary of the Aether), by Thaumond of Gelmorra
-The otherwise nameless Gelmorran Wildwood known as Thaumond spent a large part of his adult life in Ul’dah, where he met travelers from every corner of Eorzea. Based on hundreds of interviews and his own readings of countless works dealing with individual aetheric aspects and phenomena, he produced the huge Summary of the Aether shortly before his death on his return to Gelmorra. Initially well-received, the work has periodically fallen under criticism for its lack of firsthand observations and the apparent over-eagerness of its author, who, while undeniably thorough, is considered by many to be unorganized and highly theoretical. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of information presented in the work has not been ignored and the text has become a cornerstone across a variety of different fields, usually read in conjunction with A Summary of Thaumond’s Summary,by Daga’sae Vho and Lero Faro.
A Summary of Thaumond’s
Summary, by Daga'sae Vho and Lero Faro
-The Keeper Daga’sae Vho and Plainsfolk Lero Faro,companions and classmates, made the organization, interpretation, and overall editing and correction of Thaumond’s Summary their lives’ work. They dedicated years to exhaustively researching Thaumond’s own sources and attempting to verify or disprove many of the original work’s more outlandish theories. The effort spun into a large undertaking involving both authors and their extended networks of colleagues from across the academic landscape. The result of their effort was their own Summary which is considered by most serious students of the original work to be invaluable in grasping the conclusions and implications of its author. It is, however, criticized in certain circles for myriad reasons, from accusations of diluting Thaumond’s achievements and preventing readers coming to their own conclusions to cries of plagiarism and invention.
(I've done some edits and so struck through these introductions so as to prevent confusion with the new post)
De potentia primorum (or On the Power of the Primals), by Ariston Lecton
-A twenty-two volume encyclopedia on the Primals,penned by a famous Midlander philosopher.Â
Every pair of volumes presents Lecton’s findings on the Primals and the beastmen tribes that summon them following two decades of travel and interviewing. The twenty-first volume treats the Egi and the final is a collection of Lecton’s philosophical musings on the subjects collated in the previous twenty-one volumes. A massive undertaking, On the Power of the Primals never achieved wide circulation due to its enormous volume and the prodigious complexity of Lecton’s highly philosophical style. It is incredibly rare to find all twenty-two volumes collected in the same place and it is much more commonly preserved by pairs of volumes at institutions of learning across Eorzea. As such, very few may claim to have read the opus in its entirety; instead, most individuals’ familiarity with its contents comes by way of bibliographic citation and reference in other, arguably simpler works.
Summa aetheriae (or Summary of the Aether), by Thaumond of Gelmorra
-The otherwise nameless Gelmorran Wildwood known as Thaumond spent a large part of his adult life in Ul’dah, where he met travelers from every corner of Eorzea. Based on hundreds of interviews and his own readings of countless works dealing with individual aetheric aspects and phenomena, he produced the huge Summary of the Aether shortly before his death on his return to Gelmorra. Initially well-received, the work has periodically fallen under criticism for its lack of firsthand observations and the apparent over-eagerness of its author, who, while undeniably thorough, is considered by many to be unorganized and highly theoretical. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of information presented in the work has not been ignored and the text has become a cornerstone across a variety of different fields, usually read in conjunction with A Summary of Thaumond’s Summary,by Daga’sae Vho and Lero Faro.
A Summary of Thaumond’s
Summary, by Daga'sae Vho and Lero Faro
-The Keeper Daga’sae Vho and Plainsfolk Lero Faro,companions and classmates, made the organization, interpretation, and overall editing and correction of Thaumond’s Summary their lives’ work. They dedicated years to exhaustively researching Thaumond’s own sources and attempting to verify or disprove many of the original work’s more outlandish theories. The effort spun into a large undertaking involving both authors and their extended networks of colleagues from across the academic landscape. The result of their effort was their own Summary which is considered by most serious students of the original work to be invaluable in grasping the conclusions and implications of its author. It is, however, criticized in certain circles for myriad reasons, from accusations of diluting Thaumond’s achievements and preventing readers coming to their own conclusions to cries of plagiarism and invention.
(I've done some edits and so struck through these introductions so as to prevent confusion with the new post)