Dedicated Thread for Patch 2.55 Story Discussion/Spoilers

[Firepower]

was gaius a pure garlean or w/e? arent they supposed to have a third eye or something, dont think ilberd had one, or was gaius not a pure garlean?

I started digging and couldn't find any true information on if he was or not but I came across this:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ve-seen-so-far

It seems from this thread that all pure garleans are white, blonde hair blue eyed, including that new non-ishgardian woman it seems. Considering that the garlean's indoctrinated a LOT of people in their initial expansion it isn't hard to imagine Gaius not being a pure blood especially considering he himself employed non pure blooded garleans with Rhitahtyn Sas Arvina being a roegadyn. He also doesn't seem to massively ally himself with Garlean ideal's (opposed to the bahamut awakening in 1.0) As far as I was also aware he attacked the alliance in 2.0 of his own doing and not with the backing of the garlean empire also, this would increase the chances of him being independent (non garlean) all along. Finally he is a master of subterfuge and managed to create a civil war inside Ala Mhigo so maybe he could just have a really good makeup artist!

[Kallera]

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It was a big a todo when gaius gave rhitahtyn his rank. So it follows that gaius is pure bog standard garlean. Otherwise it wouldn't have been as much a thing in the army since two non garleans were leading them.

In other words, the rank and file would have gotten more used to the idea of non garleans in high positions, gaius's reaction to rhitahtyn's death (thinking he got screwed by the soldiers first) suggests that wasn't the case.