National Leadership in Stormblood and Heavensward

[YianKutku]

If the Garleans had more spies of Lucia's calibre that they deployed elsewhere, they wouldn't need the Resonant to get past those defences.

Based on Lucia's title of "goe", she's a Primus Frumentarius according to the lorebook: senior intelligence officer, commanding other intelligence assets. Which does bring up the question of what happened to the assets under her command when she defected, or if she was simply sent in solo.

I'm still surprised that Lucia managed to be undetected for so long despite both having the Garlean third eye (she'd have to wear something over it at all times?) and the Garlean height. I don't even know if her being Garlean is common knowledge in Ishgard, after her defection. It's implied that it's still a secret, but on the other hand in Stormblood Lucia talks about instructing Ishgardian troops in whatever Garlean tactics and counters she still remembers.

Come to think of it, how did Cid manage to hide his Garlean ancestry for five years since the Calamity? While he's uncommonly short for a Garlean (and thus being average Midlander height), that third eye should have been a giveaway, goggles or not. Has he not woken up in the morning or after a bath and looked into a mirror and gone "hang on, that's odd..."