Ladies and gentlemen who are waiting to get on to Gilgamesh or waiting for the servers to come back up please join our Skype Gilgamesh OOC text chat channels in the meantime we'd really love to have you in and you don't need a microphone as this channel was set up for everyone keeping in touch with each other aside from in game. Please list your Skype name here so we can get you in. Again voicechat is NOT required! You can also use Skype on IOS and Android devices with a free app on both.
A good FFXIV lore site: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Eorzea