Quote Originally Posted by Nahaara View Post
She's a twerp with a Napoleon complex, but afaik she doesn't really do evil things
This basically. She was a minor NPC in Windurst who had a tiny part in one Windurst story mission (where she helped bust Ajido-Maurijido out of jail along with the other ministers), and had a series of optional sidequests that were nothing more than fluff.

Until Treasures of Aht Urhgan she had little connection to the storyline. Then all of a sudden she inexplicably became popular amongst the player community, resulting in SE giving her a starring role in that expansion, as well as retconning her past during the Crystal War in Wings of the Goddess, and giving her her own mini-expansion A Shantotto Ascension. And it should go without saying that she appeared in both Dissidia games as FFXI's representative, albeit as a 'secret' character without any real story connection.

Personally I think there were far better and more interesting npcs in FFXI that could have been used in ARR's crossover event than that stupid taru BLM, like Cornelia or Zeid, but that damn taru stole the limelight! Ah well....