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moi qui adore les jeux vidéos final fantasy et habituée au roman fantastique, je suis très décue de ce premier livre. l histoire est baclée, les dialogues ne sont pas interressants. je ne continurait pas la série.
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Actually I think he's just copied and pasted some of the comments from the website for the books (Amazon).

Pity there's not any english versions of these books about - would love to read them.

As someone who loves the final fantasy video games and as someone who often reads fantasy novels, I'm very desapointed of the first book (in this series). The story is ... (not quite sure what baclée means), the dialogs aren't interesting. I won't be continuing the series.

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I read the first two books myself and it reads like a novel. You have a few manga-esque pages of art but the rest is text.

It tells the story of a adventurer in bastok who starts his adventure and meets other people along the way. I found it a bit boring myself. They spend a lot of time describing so many things in detail. For example, at the start the young adventurer finding a worm and his epic! battle against it. It's a worm... He actually grabs the loot / cristals from the corpse of the worm.

They do go more in detail saying you needed a special badge to be a adventurer and while I tried to get into it, it was sometimes a bit too not corny but overdone in parts. He also meets a girl practicing in white magic who saves his butt often. She's being protected by a Galka if I recall correctly. I know there's a mithra and a elvaan in the story as well but I hadn't met them yet.

Edited, May 26th 2008 3:15pm by kasumisan

Id love to read those! Its been a while but I am fluent in french. I wonder where I can get a hold of these...

Here's little more on the books and some pictures of inside. Just the artwork looks like might be cool items to own for the collector of Final Fantasy items. Great post btw thanks for finding this, never knew they existed.

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Starting in 2003, a series of novels titled Final Fantasy XI: ... was written by Miyabi Hasegawa and was released in Japanese, German and French.
(256~288p each, ISBN978-4-7577-1424-3 (Japanese))

Final Fantasy XI: Wind of the prayer (Inori no Kaze)
by Miyabi Hasegawa
It's the story of Alfred, a young hume who decided to become an adventurer, taken part of the battle between beastmen and Altana's people.
From his dangerous travels, he'll meet an experimented Galkan Paladin and an impetuous young white mage girl who will change his destiny.
Following Alfred and his companions in the streets and undergrounds of the city of Bastok, on the lands of Gustaberg and more over, you'll discover the incredibly wealth of Vana'Diel and the game FFXI at the same time.

Final Fantasy XI: The Oath of the Stars (Hoshi no Chikai)
by Miyabi Hasegawa
After their epic battle against an Orcish Warmachine, Alfred and his companions have to bring back Windurstian plans.
During their adventure, they will meet a mysterious Elvaan Bard and a Tarutaru Monk in great need.
But while they're embarking in a boat to the destination of San D'Oria, Iris the group's white mage still ignore she'll have to fight against the ennemies from her past...

Final Fantasy XI: A bond of the Eternity (Towa no Kizuna)
by Miyabi Hasegawa
Since their last mission, the alliance members are disbanded.
Jed the Elvaan and Shera the Mithran Thief went to Jeuno trying to uncurse Jed while the young Alfred and the white mage Iris are coming back to Bastok.
But with only a step to the city, they had to leave back to Jeuno where mysterious events take place.
The famous confederation are going to its greatest adventure but also its most dangerous one...

Final Fantasy XI: A far-off wing (Haruka Naru Tsubasa)
by Miyabi Hasegawa

Final Fantasy XI: A sword of the defense #1 (Mamori no Tsurugi #1)
by Miyabi Hasegawa

Book 1 Japanese version
Best Cover of the Five Books I Think

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Edited, May 29th 2008 3:39pm by sirtebian

There are more than 5 books out in Japan. I counted 15 books. I counted split up volumes as one. Books in Japan are sometimes split up into 2 or 3 volumes. For example, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince was broken up into 2 books when it was translated.

Not in published order:

賢者の遺言 - kenja no yuigon - A Sorcerer's Last Request
永遠の絆 - towa no kizuna - A Bond of Eternity
アトルガンの娘たち - atorugan no musumetachi - The Girls of Aht Urghan
è·ã‚Šã®å‰£ - mamori no ken - Sword of protection
幸運の条件 - kou'un no jouken - Requirements of Luck
遠い願い - tooi negai - Distant Prayer
ãƒãƒ³ãƒ•ã‚©ãƒ¼ãƒ«ã®å§«é¨Žå£« - ronfooru no hime kishi - Ronfaure's Princess Knight
ハッピーギフト - happii gifuto - Happy Gift
星のいざない - hoshi no izanai - Invitation to the Stars
遥かなる翼 - haruka naru tsubasa - Distant Wings
冒険者の休日 - boukensha no kyujitsu - An Adventurer's Day Off
騎士の誇り - kishi no hokori - A Knight's Pride
新たな夢 - arata na yume - A New Dream
旅の恵み - tabi no megumi - The Blessings of Travel
星の誓い - hoshi no chikai - A Star's Oath

lol.

2nd Chapter

THE MANDRAGORA!

run for your lifes~



In all seriousness, I wouldn't worry. It will get published in the states soon. I think it's harder to find publisher in the States, especially a book in another language.

Not to stray from the topic. There is a few books out there that go into detail more about the story of Vana'diel, but they are in Japanese. The are not in novel form either and I agree the WoW books really does add another dimension to that game. Not in same genre but I am reading the Resident Evil books now and it would be great if we had just a few novels for FFXI.

This is one of the books called "Final Fantasy XI: Life in Vana'Diel" that goes into the lore of the land and is being translated slowly by Elmer from Gilgamesh server.