Haurchefant Memorial at a recent 30th anniversary event

[Alleo]

The title is a big huge spoiler for everyone that did not do the MSQ to that point so maybe it would be better to have other titles for future threads?

On the topic itself. Its kinda interesting that Haurchefant is one of the few NPC characters that can still get a "too soon" message from players. There are a lot of deaths in this story and yet its often him. I am honestly also still sad and probably will never truly get over that death, because it was obviously just done to evoke certain feelings from the player base and its also done in a scene where the WoL could have easily avoided the attack..so I can get over a lof death but not this one and seeing him being milked that much by SE makes it even worse since I truly get the feeling that they only did that to sell his death..

So I am quite sad but angry at the same time..not a good combination..x)

I don't see what was so great about him.

He jumped in front of a beam that the warrior of light probably could of deflected himself and died.
I don't call that being a heroic I call that throwing his life away for absolutely nothing.

I love his character because he was a friend to us. He cared about the WoL as a person and not as a savior or weapon. He did not throw away his life for a cause (which a lot of the characters did) but to save us as a person. (And no I also already liked him before HW) But I agree that he threw away his life for nothing. We should have easily seen the attack and Haurchefant had enough time to warn us about it and run towards us..while we stood there and did nothing. This was not something that would follow us so simply running on or just jumping out of the way would have saved us..and this is why I cant accept his death. Ysayle hurt too because next to Haurchefant she was one of the few characters that I liked. But at least in the situation we were, we could not have done much. (Yes we could have teleported but that would have left our friends in danger) So her coming in to save us was fine. She did some horrible things in the game and this was kinda her redemption too. So she truly saved us from a situation that we could not change much and on top of that she also changed the story. The biggest flying threat was stalled on Azys Lla (and still is) so that is one less big dangerous thing that Eorzea has to face. Haurchefants death did nothing to the whole story. His brothers might have been changed a bit but the overall story did not change much.

(But enough of my ramblings)