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The second volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
The first volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
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Currently reading: Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume I
My actual physical TBR shelf is one of those floating IKEA LACK shelves and it, uh. Wobbled in the drywall when I tried to stack the two encyclopedias on it. So. Better read them I guess.
Just through the “history recap” section (covering “prehistory” to just before Stormblood) and, okay. That did clear up a lot of the timeline stuff in game I’d been confused about (the Allagans, the War of the Magi, etc.).
Still only like a quarter of the way through the book, though, and there are like . . . three? Four? Volumes of this thing! I guess no-one ever accused FFXIV of not being a lore-heavy world . . .
The first volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series
In this final …
Rogues, thieves, pirates and ne'er-do-wells abound in speculative fiction. Sometimes heroic, sometimes villainous, often somewhere in between, rogues are as …
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Finished reading: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
First half a little slow (not to mention took me a little while to remember who everyone was and what was going on), but devoured the last third in a few hours when the mystery plot picked back up again.
The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say …
The second book of the Eisner Award-winning horror series from writer JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer) and artist ANDREA …
In Essential Asatru, renowned author and priestess Diana Paxson demystifies an ancient, rich, and often misunderstood religion, and offers a …
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Finished reading: Blood Sigils (Vampire: the Masquerade 5e)
This books spends its entire length talking about the vampire blood magic community as “The Scene” and oh my god I could not take it seriously.
Regardless, fun mix and crunch and fluff. One of the things I’m liking a lot about the 5e books, including this one, is the inclusion of “meta-mechanics” for the Storyteller on how to structure the build of stories themselves. Which are useful tools for a bunch of things, not just tabletop sessions. So. Multipurpose!
