If you/your character was unhindered, what would they do in FFXIV's story?

Probably have joined the Ascians when we first meet Lahabrea in The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak...

If that would fail, well...

Letting Nabriales take full control of Minfilia, choosing an Option where my Character probably says the Line "Have fun with her, I'm outta this bullshit"

I don't think I would join the Scions, but I certainly would be willing to aid them in dealing with any primal activity. It's apparent that manifested primals are bad for Hydaelyn and all of her children.

Oh, I certainly would be a lot more snarkier and jerkish. Just because I'm the hero doesn't mean that I have to be nice.

1. Quit Scions, quit eternal flames, quit Warriors of Light
2. Create new DoH "Mistress" (for making gil) and form "alliances" with rich lalafells from Thanalan
3. With enough gil, buy some land and start building my own city state on it
4. Hire soldiers, scholars and crafters for my upcoming campaign against the Garlean Empire
5. Start creating new weaponary and armoury based on allagan and garlean technology
6. Invading garlean territory and taking back Doma
7. Celebrate victory and the foundation of a new noble house
8. Get killed my lalafell in a "moment of negligence" T_T

SPOILER WARNING!

I would return to Uldah and pay several visits to people who conspired against me at the end of ARR, the visit list would also include those who aided them, plus the others who hunted the scions.

Subsequent appeasement actions by a certain Lalafell would count for little during these 'visits'.

After these 'visits' people would be reminded that a Warrior of Light is not a puppet to be used then turned on, and that Light comes in different shades. There would also be less people cluttering up the environment.

"Be aware of some spoilers!"

Well at the start I would be part of the Scions since I did not know better and thought that they truly would change things (and not just throw the WoL at the next primae) but after I see that most are just using me to get rid of their problems I would quit them and start to be only a adventurer again. I also would always help the people that are truly helpless while being quite snarky at those that are just lazy...I might still help the Scion with the primae since they are bad for all people of Eorzea and me too but other than that all those political things are not in my interest.

Maybe hang out with Alphinaud and Tataru, the only Scions that I truly like and give them some help along the way if I feel like it.

After that I would probably try to live with the beast tribes for some time and help them out while I am getting better in all those crafter and gatherer classes.

At the end I would still help Ishgard a bit with their dragons but stay away from the political side. Totally would tell Haurchefant how my WoL feels about him and if we would still end up in that situation I would not just stand there and do nothing...(so he would be saved)

So I still would be some kind of adventurer and still would fight against the primae and the Ascians because I know that the world might end if I don't do that..I also wont turn evil or side with the Galearn since that would be the death to all of my beast tribe friends..After I hopefully manage to save the world and defeat the Ascians for good I would stop being an adventurer and stay with Haurchefant or if he could give his positions to his younger brother we would travel the world together...(thanks SE for destroying this chance Q_Q)

If I ever should help in any kind of man made war than I want some nice rewards for it..If they don't accept my conditions I would just shrug and let them fight it out for themselves..(I will not always be there to get them out of such situations so they should be able to win them without me anyway)

-When I was yelled at to throw the eye/s into the Abyss. I would have given them the same face I made in real life: 'You're kidding me right?' and destroyed them instead...
-I'd train under F'halminn and unlock the Dancer Soul stone.
-Run my own Chocobo stables
-Learn how to have more then one Carbuncle summoned at a time, and create new ones.

Put a lance through Ysayle's heart at the earliest opportunity. I loathe that woman.

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Originally Posted by Confidence_Trick

Put a lance through Ysayle's heart at the earliest opportunity. I loathe that woman.

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Oh my good Lord. I'm not the only one that found her insufferable and infuriating.

You reap what you sow, you stupid, stupid girl! I'm still confused as to why Estinien and Alphinaud like her so much.... Especially Estinien.


Ahem. Thinking more on it, I may have opted to spend more time growing in the ranks of the Immortal Flames, with me being a stone-cold Royalist, to help aid the city I love more in as direct a way possible. There are too many good people there!

I'd do what my inner darkness (Frey) told me to do and follow my heart, that means stop being a puppet and help those that truly need it.

Walk into Gridania at the start and join that nameless NPC by the carpenter's guild who shouts "GINGER COOKIES ARE MY SUSTENANCE!" to start the Ginger Cookie guild. Garlemald and Primals can wait for cookies.

I think my character would avoid the entire plot and stay inside reading and generally minding his own business. Or just be a traveling scholar, like the master of the arcanist guild.

What I would do... I've been more or less enjoying the story as it is, though given the opportunity I would have slapped Estinien Holding-both-eyes-at-once-can't-possibly-be-a-bad-idea Wyrmblood. Also after Final Steps of Faith I totally would have slam dunked the eye over the bridge. And I'd steal the pretty furniture from House Fortemps. And have told Regula van Whatever that his helmet looks dumb.

I'd have either joined the Sultansworn or become an enterprising Aldgoat rancher.


Or live a happy life with my beautiful elf husbando. We could have had it aaaaaalllllll! ; ;

Without going too much into that... stupidly elaborate backstory for that character of mine, he'd be a LOT, and I mean a whole lot, more involved with the whole Dragonsong War, even as soon as when Alphinaud, Cid and he come to the Central Highlands - he is a Coerthan-born-and-raised person after all.
That, and generally a lot more tackling people to the ground in overbearing affection. Or plain tackling them to the ground because he feels like it. Or putting live snakes in Estinien's armour in early Heavensward (someone has to prove their dominance as Azure Dragoon, and he's gonna do so by snakes and chocobo feces, the Fury be damned).

Okay, joking aside, he'd... actually follow the canon plot of the game a lot, he is Lawful Stupid until 3.0 ends. Anyhting following that would be slightly more him on edge and ready to punch and/or maul people (Thancred shouldn't be the only one getting to punch Emmanellain across his face PLEASE)

I would be an apprentice to the Warrior of Light rather than the WoL, a mercenary who decided to follow them and end up getting Blessed by Hydalen in 3.0.

I'd join Garlean Empire and might become the next emperor/empress.

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Originally Posted by vanitaslaughing

Lawful Stupid

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So you're a smite on sight type of paladin?