We need to go back

Remember the Japanese version of the Tactics also has visual-novels that expand upon the lore, they have been fan-translated oocities.org/tuffydabubba/ to read 3/4 of them, otherwise get a ps1 version of the game, patch it with this moddb.com/mods/fft-unlocked-and-translated-novels, then download a ps1 emulator save-file editor emutopia.com/index.php/emulators/item/386-memory-card-managment/303-memcardrex, then download a chapter 4 game save-file from fantasyanime.com/finalfantasy/fftactics/fftactics_saves.htm, edit that save unto your memory card and then grind for all four book artefacts (Veil of Wiyu, Nanai's Histories, Mesa's Musings, Enavia Chronicles) by taking the errands listed here chrysaliswiki.com/item:enavia-chronicles and resetting whenever you get the wrong artefacts.

Seems long-winded, but it’s the only way to play all four of them within the game itself like the way their meant to be played. It won’t take that long, and I think it’s worth it.

I will proceed to post summaries of all of them

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Oeilvert

It’s angle on the world of Ivalice feels a lot like Vagrant Story, it feels like it’s set in the period but it’s actually set about 215 years before FF tactics. It’s a spy story that takes place in (possibly) the kingdom Sheriluria, which had a war of four saints take place 89 years ago. It has a woman working as a spy for the royal family who is trying to uncover the secrets of an Amnesiac writer who wants to fuck her, who turns out to have belonged to an anti-monarchistic governmental party. The kingdom used to have begun with something resembling modern democracy a few years ago, but that stopped when political intrigue lead to a member of the anti-monarchist party give a speech that caused the party to disband and have the people vote for a feudal monarchy. The heroine along with many others used to work as a spy for the king in the anti-monarchistic for the purpose of disbanding democracy. The guy (Edward Black) who gave the speech was also a spy, but ended up being convinced of being an anti-monarch by the writer but he couldn’t stop working as a spy because his family is pro-monarch - his change of heart had the heroine kill him.

The heroine then changes her heart, she finds out with information given by Edward Black that the way to harm the pro-monarchists is to kill certain política figures and this leads to the anti-monarchist party reforming and an attempt at revolution

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It's already back

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Fantasy Magience Story

This is a novel, with possibly some truth in it, of Mesa the Saviour. This story takes place pre-calamity, it’s all about a sky-pirate and his airship, and is a taste of FF12’s Ivalice in FF tactics. The date given is 1822, so this might have taken place right before the calamity. Also, there is a reference to the Ronkon empire which has ruled over the lankom island (inhabited islands to the west of the ‘continent’, probably to the west of the kingdom of Ivalice itself if they haven’t been destroyed by the calamity). The current super-power of this time-period of Ivalice is the evil Paramekian empire (reference to FF2) whose emperor has a grand dream, airships are advanced but their is still advancements being made, the world of Ivalice is going through the Magi-ence (magitek renaissance, a time of reliance on machinery and an abandonment of religion), powerful destructive magi-tek waves exist and mako energy is being used for airships.

The guy is trying to the find the city of Caimsunhama while being tracked down by the empire, which he used to belong to. Also, it turns out the city of Caimsunhama isn’t real and it’s existence is a prank that his grandad made up . The idea that this is near the calamity is backed up by the fact that airships are really old by this point, and they are being found in the ancient ruins of Lankom. In these islands another species of humes went extinct, and a manlet race called the Lilliputians existed. Two ‘over-gods’ mentioned are Poseidon, named after the great water city of posiedoom, and Berlea who made a perfect paradise in the island of joy before the civilisation there decayed. The people who lived in Lonkon islands also believed women came from a specific island.

Lots of lore

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One of them is a chocobo gambling game, this is really late in the pre-calamity era and the world has ended up in a weird mix between high-fantasy and modern (kind of like FF7). A lot of things that not only resemble modern society and technology are there, but there is still a king ruling whatever pre-calamity country this is and the architecture looks non-modern. Robots are being manufactured and can be bought as personal products, jukeboxes exist, an item is jokingly called lucky charm(tm), loud speakers exist, cafés are common and the world generally seems to be in a capitalistic state though there are still things like armourers and dancers in taverns. There was a war a few years ago, but that’s not saying much. Gambling is mostly illegal in this country, with the exception of one chocobo race-track which the king permits. Horses are mentioned, though ‘no one uses them in this technological age'. Lots of references to FF7 in this one, and one woman talks about how interesting would it be if a meteor crashed down. It may not seem to take place in Ivalice on a surface level, but there are hints here and there that give it away.

General story is about a guy who has lost his paper-making business, got fucked in the arse with his insurance and is about to lose his wife (who went on a date with some rich-cunt called Lance) to his gambling addiction and the only way to fix this is to stake all his money on a massive gambling spree. If he wins, he will give up his gambling addiction, start up his business again and wins back his wife - if he loses he an heroes by falling off several floors (the ff tactics unit ko sound is played during this). In the end it turns out his wife had no intention of really cheating on him and leaving him, she just wanted to scare him so he could sort himself out.

Written by a psychologist who is called Nanai, in the book it’s from she’s investigating the lives of many people

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Tactics is not my favorite Final Fantasy game. XII is not my favorite Final Fantasy game. But Ivalice is far and away my favorite Final Fantasy setting.

The last one is set in Enavia in khus castle, post-calamity Ivalice, it’s about the daughters of Duke Alberto: Alicia (a tomboyish girl talented at the harp, she is very sickly) 16 years old, Maria 14 years old (I think) and Lucia (13 years old). The problem about this one is that it was never properly translated, so all we have is a machine text translation with 50% word accuracy but I could make out enough.

Lucia is in love with Kurt, the gardener of Kush castle, while Alicia is a bit of a bitch so there is always a possibility of her telling Alberto and Alberto having him fired. This game is basically a dating-sim, you have a crush meter (that details her passion for Kurt and you control it through your actions. The only piece of lore aside from what’s given in the end that I could pull out is that opera is quite popular in that country, and the girls are all given private lessons. If you fail at the game then Alberto sends you to a far away village (I forgot the name) to receive lessons, and you are unable to confess your feelings to Kurt. In the true ending, I am not sure if this is really the only ending or if there is a happier ending, Lucia and Kurt confess their love to each other (maybe fuck? I don’t know the translation was bad, it was ‘they felt each-other’s love) and Kurt leaves to his mother’s village while Lucia confesses her desire to run-away from him. The very end of the story says that the writer wanted to end the story in this light-hearted moment because they didn’t want it to be a tragic story, the writer then proceeds to prophecies great events that will shake the family like Maria’s illness and ‘the revolution’.

The reference to ‘the revolution’ and some other things leads some people to think that Oeilvert is actually set in Enavia and not Sheriluria, but you can’t really confirm either way.

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Tried playing it and holy shit, what a fucking shameless cashgrab, I love FFT, FFTA, FFTA2 to death but couldn't play this shit for more than 2 hours.

Everything is upgradable and everything uses some kind of currency that you can pay to upgrade. I just don't think cashgrab gacha is for me lol.

What is this, please?

>create all these wonderful races and settings
>Tactics Advance 2
>Play with all these wonderful races
>XII
>Play with all humans