3.1 MSQ Reaction [SPOILERS]

[EvinnaReed]

I enjoyed the patch but my heart melted into a puddle of goo when Edmont said "You remind me of Hauchefant. I don't want to lose another son." to Aymeric. T_T I already have massive feels about Aymeric (though seriously he probably shouldn't have gone off storming a dungeon after getting shanked) But to hear that, after knowing how much of a giant dick his real dad was? MY HEART.

[Alisa180]

I enjoyed the patch but my heart melted into a puddle of goo when Edmont said "You remind me of Hauchefant. I don't want to lose another son." to Aymeric. T_T I already have massive feels about Aymeric (though seriously he probably shouldn't have gone off storming a dungeon after getting shanked) But to hear that, after knowing how much of a giant dick his real dad was? MY HEART.

That scene was actually tear-jerking for me in another way: Edmont was saying that right in earshot of his eldest son, Atoriel. I mentally went, 'Um, hello? What's Atoriel then? He's RIGHT there you know.'

I do agree with other posters here that the intent of that scene was less Edmont's (admittedly heartwarming) sense of kinship with Aymeric, and more the fact that he was ignoring Atoriel, his *actual* son. It's pretty damn clear by now that Haurchefant was the favorite of Edmont's sons, despite being a bastard. Which also explains a good deal of Atoriel's resentment towards him. (And has a few other unpleasant implications.) Upon closer examination of the whole thing, I suspect something in the Fortempts family is going to boil over before the 3.x story is done.

(But I should re-iterate that I don't believe Atoriel is going to be evil. Or turn on us. What I said earlier about his actions seeming in line with his character development still stands.)

Calling it now. Aymeric will be the King of Ishgard by 4.0.

That's...actually not as farfetched as it might seem at first glance. After all, as we saw in one of our Echo visions after defeating Nidhogg, the four knights who would become the founders of what are now the four High Houses originally intended to simply be 'stewards' of the city-state until a new king emerged (since Haldrath effectively abdicated and went off to fight dragons for the rest of his life). Which naturally brings up the question of how Ishgard evolved into the theocracy it is today, with the archbishop heading the city.

But it also brought up a tantalizing plot thread. That Ishgard, to grow as a whole, needs not a new archbishop, but a king to fill the throne long left empty by Haldrath. The whole system with the church and the archbishop, again, was never the intent of the knights. I didn't consider Aymeric though, but that would make a lot of sense.