Have they not considered anything like this? Instead of the grimoire system from D1, why not have a “Loremaster” or Librarian at the tower in which you can unlock and view events? A timeline. Some would be simply for completing things and would unlock all associated lore, others could be secrets discovered from scanning things in the environment.
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I always believed that the speaker should have been the character you go to read the grimoire with. Just seems like it would work? Talk to him and open up your collection of card's