I agree with Lawful Neutral... But I fail to see why most of you hate Thordan.
He didn't summon Thordan to gain power, not to reign eternally... He summoned Thordan to destroy the Ascians. To protect his people. It's true, he wanted to protect the theocracy, because the theocracy was a mean to empower Thordan, and thus, having more power to destroy the Ascians, protecting the city. Yes, he ****ed the dragons but he wasn't That bad of a guy, his will to protect Ishgard was pure. I think we definitely did a mistake killing it. He was a Lawful Good (loyal neutral at least) character, and that implies that sometimes, you gotta sacrifice something, even really important to you, for the greater good, the good of the people you're loyal to... Ishgard, for the archbishop.
I recognize that he let a part of his people suffer, but... They were alive. Without him, without a leader as pure of heart as him, the Ascians would have dominated Ishgard, and the dragons would have destroyed the city.
What he saw in us was the vassal of Hydaelyn, as Ascians were the vassals of Zodiark... But it's not because we serve light than we are better for the city than Ascians. In his opinion, we weren't different from the Ascians. Empowered beings toying with the fate of a world we aren't really part of.
I know what you may think... "Well, Arca, we established democracy and killes the bad guys, the ascians, we protected the city from Ravana and Bismarck !". Well, first of all, I'm not truly sure democracy is good for Ishgard (not a political debate, I'm Just saying it isn't that good for Ishgard), and second... Yeah, we're Ascians' ennemies. But we're still the same thing, basically. And to be honest... We didn't helped Much. We strengthened Niddhog, we killed the Celestial Dragoon (not sure of his title...) we dragged Ishgard in the Alliance (because yeah, everybody knows others Alliance's cities are perfectly fine, dragging Ishgard in That mess will definitely help) and crushed beast tribes That were a mere nuisance before we joined in.
We're good as long as we don't think about what we're doing, and just look superficially at things. Actually, we're just doing what we're told to, and good has nothing to do with it. The only thing That matters is crushing Zodiark. Yup. Warrior of Light, people. Warrior. Not Emissary or anything. We're born to kill and destroy. That's why Thordan was afraid of us, wondered what we are and said we were fools.