Fordola (spoilers)

[Odstarva]

I feel like some of you might have skipped parts of the main quest and a few side-quests.


At one point, there are ala mhigans who were born under the garlean occupation that try to ambush us - in their eyes, we are the invader.
There is also a side-quest where the locals are urging you to stop the alliance from executing one of the enemy commanders, whom according to them always treated them fairly and found a way to give them their lives back, going out of his way to ensure none of the grunts abused them.



There is plenty of grey, most of it feels obfuscated by the main scenario quest but if you go looking for it it's definitely there.



Furthermore, on an earlier side-quest there is also mention of how Gaius stopped eorzea from being attacked with chemical weapons, act he condemned - the fact zenos didn't pursue the same avenue goes to show that (at least to some extent) they too follow some form of war ethic (but that's just speculation).