The WOL and Mass Murder

[Delily]

Resentment for who though? We're not the only Adventurer out there killing tempered. The Grand Companies killed Tempered all the time. A regular person in Ul'dah who had a family member tempered has no way to track what happens to them. Even if this cure gets created there's no way this resentment by all of society is singularly focused on just our character. Maybe Thancred killed her tempered husband. one specific quest where one person actually sees you do it is plausible but that's no different than Asahi hating us for Zenos.

why would most of society blame us for it when we're not the first, last or only person out there killing tempered.

Even more, they may resent us, but the reality is the cure wasn't available at the time, and there's the greater threat of the primal killing a lot more people.

[BillyKaplan]

Even more, they may resent us, but the reality is the cure wasn't available at the time, and there's the greater threat of the primal killing a lot more people.

There's also the issue of who comes up with the cure. I'd sooner see them blaming whoever did for not coming up with it sooner, rather than the WoL. Also, despite what Y'shtola said in certain parts of the Warring Triad quests, we, the WoL, only killed tempered in self defense. That dirty part of the job was not only relegated to the others but actively kept a secret from us until they had no choice but to reveal it to us. Us getting blamed for killing them if a cure is ever found would require some serious reaching on the part of the person placing the blame, enough to make it nigh impossible that it's widespread

[Ilenya]

That dirty part of the job was not only relegated to the others but actively kept a secret from us until they had no choice but to reveal it to us.

This isn't really true. Thancred did not have to tell us about it post Ifrit, he did because doing otherwise wasn't exactly fair to us. I feel like we could have never found out if he didn't bother us because it never actually comes up again, at least that I recall.

[BillyKaplan]

she refuses to learn the attack branch of conjury.

Because unless you know Red magic, you can't use your own aether to use stone and air attacks. As she's only barely a CNJ who refuses to borrow from nature, she locks herself out of those branches of the art, but it is not because she refuses to use offensive abilities.

This isn't really true. Thancred did not have to tell us about it post Ifrit, he did because doing otherwise wasn't exactly fair to us.

That's arguing semantics at this point.

I feel like we could have never found out if he didn't bother us because it never actually comes up again, at least that I recall.

It's so unmentioned that Y'shtola actually spews nonsense during the Warring Triad quest, saying that we knew all along and even helped with it!

[Ilenya]

It's so unmentioned that Y'shtola actually spews nonsense during the Warring Triad quest, saying that we knew all along and even helped with it!

If she did, I don't recall that. Either way Thancred didn't have to tell us, regardless on your semantics comment.