[SPOILERS] Stormblood Ending

[Lauront]

Let's hope that the DRK quest is prophetic, and that the WOL will begin suffering the consequences for some of his actions in due course, and that the Alliance will begin to suffer the consequences of not having him at its disposal, as a crutch to lean on, then pretending it achieved some great victory on its own merits.

I'd definitely like to see one of the leaders of the Eorzean Alliance be ousted or screw up so badly that they're forced to step down. It's a little too convenient that everything works out perfectly for them even in the face of adversity. Especially when they criticise other individuals and organisations for taking a tough, controversial approach to their own problems because they do not have the Warrior of Light to fall back on as a convenient solution to most of their woes. There's barely any criticism of the decision to use Omega to combat Shinryu, for instance, despite Omega now essentially holding all life on Hydaelyn hostage. Then again, it's likely that nobody beyond a select few individuals will ever know about it.

Yet if it were Garlemald that activated Omega out of necessity to defend against an Eikon and it ended up causing problems further down the line then I have little doubt that there would be no end to the criticism, especially if the result was the same - namely humanity being held hostage for the sake of Omega's experimentation.

Also, let's recall that the non-tempered Ilberd caused the whole problem, to begin with, in his maniacal pursuit of revenge. The Alliance summarily took it to be a "declaration of war", and unleashed Omega to deal with the problem Ilberd, and his corrupted Resistance members, had caused. Garlemald had the means to deal with Shinryu, in that it possesses advanced magitek at its disposal, as well as Allagan research; in actual fact, Ilberd endangered everyone else on the star. He even provided Zenos with the means to later wreak the havoc he did.