Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Nalien]

I mean, they already played the "identical sibling with the same actor" card when they introduced Lucia, and that's not something you do when you want to bring back the exact character you killed off. I just like playing devil's advocate.

I'm just glad nobody is pointing out my blatant hypocrisy here... Livia is definitely dead, but Lahabrea is still around, right? Right?!

I don't even think it's meant to be intentional. They're just being far too vague - how did the Emperor know of the Archbishop's plan, for example?

I never really figured the Emperor even had a clue about Thordan... Was it ever implied anywhere that they were there to stop him? I always thought they were just there for the Allagan spoils... They could perhaps have some idea that Ishgard was interested in Azys Lla, though... Camp Cloudtop was likely set up by Thordan, at the behest of Lahabrea, so that they could get they Key, which the Vanu Vanu held on a sacred island before Bismarck ate it... Ishgard was friendly with the Vanu Vanu at first, after all... Garlemald shows up, just after access to Azys Lla, Lahabrea has Bismarck summoned to buy them time, Garlemald notices Ishgard is sniffing around too and just figures something is going on and monitors the situation... Would make sense that they were at least following us, given they waited for us to break the door down, and they'd have known we beat Bismarck surely? That we didn't manage to get straight in could only mean someone else took the Key from us... Only other force in the area, is Ishgard, heck the Vanu Vanu was Thordans airship flying off, so Garlemald must have been aware they were going to Azys Lla as well...