Lore Question: Killing Poachers, why? Hypocritical?

[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!!!

[Rhomagus]

Maybe these poachers are Garleans or at the very least bandits. Poaching isn't necessarily killing some protected species, it is poaching when you kill game that belongs to someone else especially if you are their enemy/an outlaw.

I don't know how you could think raptors/toads are a protected species in Gridania I mean sure they are the nature oriented city-state, but it isn't like they are all rabid vegans.

These &*^%$&%$ are killing all our Raptors and selling their hides to foreigners! Not just any foreigners either but our sworn enemies who hate freedom and want to destroy all of Eorzea, and I suppose we should just roll over and let them pick the forest clean just because we have a history of legally and responsibly hunting animals on our own land? Preventing overpopulation and oh yeah funding the entire Moogle Forestry Service, what a bunch of hypocrites we all are. Well when was the last time you personally, Shin Chuck, did anything for a marmot?!

What about all the leatherworks who rely on those raptors for Gridanian JOBS!!!! I guess their families should go hungry just because you feel sorry for some no good dirty poachers.

This blame-Gridania-first crowd makes me sick!

I lol'd a lot.

[Jynx]

Poaching without the forests consent (usually for money or non survival reasons) would probably incur greenwrath, or, anger from the forest. Gridania works for the forest with its permission and tries to protect from the forest. See con and lnc guilds

As far as gridania is concerned our characters have probably acrud a seething ammount of greenwrath, I don't ask no elementals for its grace before I kill it...

[Volsung]

As far as gridania is concerned our characters have probably acrud a seething ammount of greenwrath, I don't ask no elementals for its grace before I kill it...

I think as far as our characters go its assumed we don't kill just for the funsies or to sell on a black market.

[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.

[Zantetsuken]

This is a sad, and little known fact:

Guild halls are actually little more than gang hideouts. The Adventurer's guild and the Poacher's guild have been at war for ages. Those that sign up with one guild are sent out to hunt down and mercilessly kill members of the other.

The only difference between those Mi'qote and us is where they get their leves from.

[Ixador]

I know this game is supposed to be medieval-like but I actually agree with OP. I generally don't like how this game handles defeating opponents/killing via its lore. (ffxi did the best I've seen in an mmo, leaving much to the user's imagination)

[Jynx]

I think as far as our characters go its assumed we don't kill just for the funsies or to sell on a black market.

Even so in thing such as the Lancer quests they pretty much assure me I'm garnering a terrible ammount of greenwrath for doing stuff in the forest. They wont even give me a mask that makes them unable to acrue greenwrath.

T-T

[ShinChuck]

I just noticed I've been putting the apostrophe in the wrong place all this time when I've written "mi'qote". Not only have I been slaughtering them by the dozens, I've been getting their name wrong. My bad, cat ladies!

This is a sad, and little known fact:

Guild halls are actually little more than gang hideouts. The Adventurer's guild and the Poacher's guild have been at war for ages. Those that sign up with one guild are sent out to hunt down and mercilessly kill members of the other.

The only difference between those Mi'qote and us is where they get their leves from.

Hah, I like this one too. I want to join the Poacher's Guild, totally because of my conviction and not because I want to be the only male in a guild with dozens of scantily clad mithra with no other friends in the entire world.

Of course, then I have the rest of the world getting "kill on site" orders regarding me... eek!

I know this game is supposed to be medieval-like but I actually agree with OP. I generally don't like how this game handles defeating opponents/killing via its lore. (ffxi did the best I've seen in an mmo, leaving much to the user's imagination)

Thanks! This topic was done mostly in jest and to play devil's advocate, but I think there's genuine truth to it too. I'm used to WoW or Rift sending me out to enact the death penalty on random mobs with flimsy rationale, but not in XI, and so, it surprised me to see it coming from XIV.

But again, mostly just done for the joke value and for the lore debates.