Jemadar wrote on 2021-12-10 07:19:07:
I think that the issue that is coming up is the idea that for us to have more 'information' on the familiars, the staff would have to go through and actually assign said info to the familiars. While having more information is nice, it also is ultimately useless for a great many players and often they would prefer that effort go to completely new stuff.
This is my issue: this isn't information that already exists somewhere being put in a more convenient place, this is information that
doesn't exist being created and added to the page. I mean, sometimes it exists, but generally if a familiar is part of a beastclan, it'll be listed in their title. i.e. Longneck Mender, Maren Spearmaiden. If it's not listed in their title, it's listed in their tooltip in some way, i.e. Aerborne Ambassador has the description, "The grinning faces of
kitsune are welcomed and beloved among the clans of the Windswept Plateau, many even living close by dragons for protection." (Bolding mine for emphasis, since the Aerborne Ambassador is being described as a kitsune despite having a more festival-themed item title.)
Basically, in at-least-almost all cases (I am going to leave some wiggle room for my memory not being flawless here) where the family of familiar already exists, adding it to the page would also be redundant, because the information is already there. Same with element, as people have mentioned; it's available on the enemy page. I would find it cool if the elements that already exist were mirrored, but I have a feeling that would just be a lot of work for people asking "why doesn't [familiar] have an element listed?" and honestly I can see that being a reason they kept it strictly to the Coli pages where it would be relevant and standardized.
In general, though, going through and assigning all the unclassified familiars an element is a kind of busywork I'd rather FR's tiny team spend elsewhere,
unless they intend to do something with it. For instance, if FR is developing a new mechanic using familiars, in which familiar element would be relevant, I think it would absolutely be worth going through, assigning elements, and making that information readily available on the familiar page. The exception would be something none of us can know: if the FR staff secretly have an encyclopedia of all familiars with already assigned elements, yes, by all means, that'd be cool information to have! But I doubt it exists, since I feel like if it did they would have added it to the Game Database back when the GD was created.
As an aside to OP, since you seem interested in centralized data about familiars, if you're looking for more generalized information about beastclans and other known sapient familiars, user-run threads like the
Canon Lore Compendium collect and collate information from various tooltips across the site to provide a broad overview, with citations and footnotes. A decent amount of people on the site enjoy hunting through any new tooltips like plucky detectives, and some of them like organizing and formatting that information for people who
don't enjoy that sort of thing, so hopefully you'll find it helpful if you didn't know about it yet!