Is anyone else dying to get to Garlemald?

[Galvuu]

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The Empire has its hands soaked in innocent blood, but let's not pretend any of the Eorzean city-states are better.

In Gridania, there's an entire side quest about a Keeper miqo who's looking for her sister, and the wood wailers, out of sheer racism, threaten to rape her when she turns to them for help just for potentially having a relative implicated in poaching. I mean, they were going to rape her, the WoL just steps in. This is the city-state that would throw babies in a well to follow the whims of these nigh-malignant spirits that don't even have much power right now after Bahamut razed the woods in the Calamity.

Ul'Dah is a plutocracy where the only coin... is the coin itself. Blood, honour, none of it matters. Lest we forget, the disaster at the end of 2.5 was brought about two Ul'Dah entrepreneurs trying to outpower each other with complete disregard for all others involved. This idea is so indoctrinated that most Ul'Dah citizens believe this is the right way to do things (cue what happened in Little Ala Mhigo).

Limsa has the whole piracy thing, and it's frequently hinted that many corners are less-than-reputable, and surely not safe. Corruption grows at large.

Ishgard had a stratified society where the nobility seemed perfectly content with letting its own die of frostbite and starvation- children included- and was competing with Gridania on the racist scale.

And lovely Ala Mhigo had a regime where not only did they slaughter their own, they invaded Gridania before the Empire struck.

We (the city-states) are the primary reason why beast-tribes summon primals, which happens with or without the empire, because we're just as racist towards them (and often carry out acts of unprovoked hostility, like we see with Limsa breaking the pack of non-aggression with the Kobolds).

This irks me a lot about the game and the story sometimes. It demonises the Empire, who surely is despotic, but elevates Eorzea who is honestly just as terrible.
Were there not a common enemy for us to unite against, Eorzea would also fall to infighting, as it did before.

If I can work with these corrupt nations and their twisted ruling bodies, I've no reason to believe I cannot eventually work with the Empire itself.
Much like in FF12, for all their evil and violent practice, the Empire's core mission has some good we can salvage, much like any other faction we came across.
They've frequently tried to kill me, but just about every nation has at this point.
I'll just beat them senseless, then we can surely talk like rational people.