Lore Question: Killing Poachers, why? Hypocritical?

[Murugan]

That seems to be what it boils down to! That doesn't even seem explain why we can *randomly* do it, and they cannot. I understand leves being sanctioned, but the various quests unrelated to official business, and all the mobs we randomly slay for drops, SP, or just because we want to are not explained!





Hah hah, hey, I'm FROM Gridania! It's my hometown! I would be doing leves there all the time if my crew wasn't so Ul'dah-attached.

Anyway, yours is the best answer yet. Now, as far as I can tell, in-game we don't know WHY poaching is an offense Gridania imposes a death penalty on, nor do we know the poachers' affiliations, and we don't even know that they don't sell raptor leather back to those leather workers anyway, but it's definitely a lot more reasonable then anything else the game gives us!

I fully concede I'm overthinking this, and, like so many quests in WoW and Rift and XI and PSU, it's just fun sometimes to ask the community about lore issues and see the theories behind it. Heck, the Star Wars community has filled in just about every given plothole in the new trilogy!

No we do know why, it says in the guildleves themselves that they are picking the forest clean and selling the hides to merchants in the far east (where Garlemond is located).

[ShinChuck]

No we do know why, it says in the guildleves themselves that they are picking the forest clean and selling the hides to merchants in the far east (where Garlemond is located).

Ohhh, good catch, I somehow overlooked that. Still... we do all sorts of things along those lines all the time! I definitely don't just sell my stuff to Gridania, I've sold it pretty far and wide.

When I'm offered the chance to kill Miqo'te, I savor the moment and don't ask questions.

Hah, that's roughly what my girlfriend said. I can't say it's the worst quest... mithra, I had no problem with. Miqo'te, well, SE just decided to tramp miqo'te NPCs up to obnoxious levels...

[Murugan]

Ohhh, good catch, I somehow overlooked that. Still... we do all sorts of things along those lines all the time! I definitely don't just sell my stuff to Gridania, I've sold it pretty far and wide.

You only sell stuff to Merchants located in the free cities though, they are poaching and selling it to a foreign market. So if we don't stop them all the Raptors and Toads will be gone, and we won't have any hides to supply our leatherworkers/economy. It is economic/ecological warfare to weaken the city-states and make the Garlean invasion that much easier.

It is obvious that Gaius Van Baelsar himself is behind this sinister plot, and this guildleve is the linchpin in Gridania's efforts to stave off a full scale invasion! So my god man, you have to stop those Mi'qote!!!

[ShinChuck]

Heheh, yeah, as expected, what it boils down to is we have to make wild speculations to make it work, with still no answer why *our* poaching is acceptable! Pretty hard to recommend the death penalty based on that! Gridania, your legal system is all sorts of jacked up.

You only sell stuff to Merchants located in the free cities though, they are poaching and selling it to a foreign market. So if we don't stop them all the Raptors and Toads will be gone, and we won't have any hides to supply our leatherworkers/economy. It is economic/ecological warfare to weaken the city-states and make the Garlean invasion that much easier.

It is obvious that Gaius Van Baelsar himself is behind this sinister plot, and this guildleve is the linchpin in Gridania's efforts to stave off a full scale invasion! So my god man, you have to stop those Mi'qote!!!

lolol, best response yet! I'm in favor of this being added to in-game lore.