When are we going to infiltrate the Garlean Empire?!

[Theodric]

I'm not sure it's wise to paint the leadership of Garlemald as 'evil'. Driven and heavy handed, certainly, but we do not yet fully understand their reasoning for acting the way that they do and seem to be working towards trying to 'save' Hydaelyn as a whole in their own way. They may very well be misguided, yes, but real world morality is always a dubious thing to apply to fantasy settings as they're not often the same. Magic, for example, as well as Primals, don't exist in the real world - so anything to do with them is by design going to be very morally grey on any side.

The persecution of the Beast Tribes is dubious, I'd agree - but at the same time Eorzeans themselves have done the exact same thing. The destruction of Doma? Again, dubious, but we don't know all the details. How many innocents were slain during the uprising, I wonder? Perhaps the situation was triggered by Domans committing atrocities only to be stamped down by the same forces they saw as scattered and ready to be exploited. It's also worth noting that many Domans willingly sided with Garlemald and that Garlean life may very well be better in many ways. If nothing else it's certainly more advanced in terms of technology.

Though at this point I feel like Doma was destroyed - off screen no less - purely for the sake of the FF6 reference. It was quite quickly forgotten and seemed more like a plot device to get the Au Ra to come to Eorzea. They could have simply decided to travel to the place in bulk due to some other event or decision though...