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Even during an age of strife, adventurers will frequently find time to step away from the battles at hand, if not out of necessity, then simply for a change of pace. Whether procuring pelts for sale at the market, gathering ingredients for alchemic endeavors, or finding a tasty morsel to quell the incessant grumblings of one's belly, hunting is an indispensable part of an adventurer's daily routine.
However, taking up a blade against the realm's wildlife can be no less dangerous than standing in a shield wall on the front lines of battle, or defending a fortress against a bloody siege. The harsh environs of Eorzea have left their mark on the land's fauna, culling the weak and sharpening the senses of those that survived; and while they may not be tainted with the same dark ambitions that poison the hearts of men, the beasts are equally ruthless when threatened. Thus, a truly skilled hunter will never step into the wild without first fully understanding the beast they pursue.
The fauna and flora of Eorzea were long-ago collected into a seminal bestiary called the Raimdelle Codex. In the modern age, it is still the go-to resource for for identification and classification of the region's lifeforms. When limited to the range of monsters you will face in Eorzea, the biological classification system is as follows.
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Also known as Regnum, contains three categories, Bloodborn, Bloodless, and Transient |
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Also known as Kindred, contains eleven major groupings—anomalies are placed in Undocumented |
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An archetype of monster, such as dodo or spriggan. |
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Divisions of a genus that look slightly different—coblyns (blue) v. doblyns (yellow), for example |
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Individual enemies—members of the same species with different names. |
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Because the codex was organized in a "top-down" fashion, many individual terms can refer to multiple levels of classificaion. For instance, "coblyn" can refer to the genus of soulkin, the blue-hued species of said genus, and even a monster within said species; classify with care.
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