Launch Trailer Hype Thread

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

If Zenos is even stronger than our character, why did Eorzea hear nothing about him before that expansion? Why not have him and some soldiers take over all of Eorzea? I mean we would be talking about someone that can defeat a person that can take on the strongest primal and his 12 knights alone.

It's not as simple as that. For one, we've never faced Zenos before; if Zenos has never faced us before, then Garlemald has no reason to assume him any more capable than any of the others who have failed to conquer Eorzea. Remember that Garlemald isn't attacking Eorzea at all because of the Primals; the implication is that once they have a way to permanently handle the threat, they'll commit to a takeover again, but because Primal summonings made the conquest of Othard so costly, they're holding back until the problem can be solved before it's a problem. No matter how personally skilled Zenos is with the blade, no matter what abilities or trickery or technology he has on-hand, his superiors aren't going to change tactics without him proving that he's somehow more likely to get the job done than Nael or Gaius. Where would he have had the chance to prove that?

Meanwhile, there are plenty of reasons why we may have never heard of Zenos (although we have; the False Griffin mentions him offhand in his speech), the most obvious being that his assignment was quite far from Eorzea until very recently. Then there's the fact that we don't seem to have infiltrated Garlemald to much degree at all - in fact, if I recall correctly, the most information that has ever been delivered to us on them was the result of the war of succession, after it had concluded. We don't exactly have access to the names and abilities of all Garlemald's top commanders at our fingertips. He's never come up because, until now, he's never been especially relevant.

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Ultimately it comes down to the fact that, even if you want to discount the Blessing of Light granting us power on some occasions, the number and variety of enemies we've faced should allow us to match Zenos blow for blow thanks to sheer skill - yet what I've seen suggests he's going to curbstomp us early in 4.0. This could only be explained logically by him having some kind of power booster... that's my best guess, at least.

Well, let's also not forget that canonically, Regula took on four adventurers himself, including the WoL. There is some precedent for a Garlean Legatus giving us trouble when fought head-on.