Godbert and the syndicate

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As powerful as he is in the hildibrand questline. And is against wrong doing, why does he not keep them in line?

My theory is that the Hildibrand story is semi-canonical, as in one-directional. Everything that happens in Eorzea is canon to the Hildibrand storyline, but not everything that happens in the Hildibrand storyline is canon to Eorzea. Articulate gentlemen zombies, explosives to the face, goldsmith limitbreaks, it's all slapstick commentary on the game-world at large, but need not necessarily be true.

Outside of the Hildibrand storyline, Godbert might not be able to save Eorzea with Manderville Manliness. He may just be a wise, old master GSM.

Multiple times he says he belongs to the syndicate. But when ever the syndicate is gathered he isn't there.

He likes to wear robes at their gatherings, but he's there on occasion. Presence at the Syndicate seems to only be required if you actually expect to wield any of your power. The others don't seem to mind if someone doesn't want to influence the city-state's affairs, as it's more power to them (though they do kind of take it as a personal slight). Raubahn, for instance, won his seat on the Syndicate and took two years off to go they-have-no-idea-where.