Quote Originally Posted by Frederick22 View Post
On a comment above I gave you an explanation of why the Ishgardians had so much trouble into find a "peacefull solution". Read carefully please.
Your main point, about everyone knowing that the church was corrupt, is invalid. It's not true that the rule of Ishgard was being questioned. What *was* being questioned was Ishgard's foreign policy, and even then only people like Aymeric and Haurchefant had been disagreeing with it, and that was mostly because of their own open personalities and the helpfulness that Alphinaud and the Adventurer showed them in helping to clear the name of one of their high Houses. Also, Nidhogg's attacks on Ishgard were quite regardless of the Adventurer's actions, meaning that all we did was step into an existing situation and, contrary to the Ishgardians, actually choose to do *something*. What Alphinaud initially proposed was a simple parley, after all, and even though that fell through, it could have just as easily been initiated by an Ishgardian as by us. It would have yielded the same results of being denied, either by Hraesvelgr or his daughter, and then the Ishgardians could have requested the help of either the Scions specifically or the other nations as a whole. The point I'm making here is that the Ishgardians literally did nothing other than seek war with the Dravanians, and that outside of our more "supernatural" feats of strength, everything we did was just as easily doable by anyone else with the skills and motivation to actually give enough of a damn to make an effort.