Ilberd

[Lauront]

when? If I remeber right, it is the first time Varis said something like that.

Who else? Gaius? He was alone. The emperor did not share his point of views.

It's also the first time Varis said much at all.

None of it is a direct parallel, though I actually quite like the "Allag as Rome" comparison.

Great, as long as we recognise that it also leaves no reasons to care one whit about the Ala Mhigans or Ala Mhigo. Perhaps SE could present more reasons to be sympathetic with them, much like they could with Garlemald. We're already working with the very questionable city-state of Ul'dah.

As for the Garlean motives, wanting the Primals vanquished for the threat they posed to their conquest does not preclude wanting them obliterated for the broader threat they pose, which is pretty much the viewpoint Varis is expressing. So I'd say there is some evidence of such a strain of thinking within the Empire.

BTW, who is this Fern? A SE developer/designer?