Idea for a New Expansion: Gaius van Baelsar lives... and he needs your help

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I agree with you on those points. There's a difference between bringing out narrative potential and just throwing fan-service to the wolves. We'll see where his character ends up big picture; I've seen little reason to doubt the writing team and surely they know bringing him back is a double-edged sword to be wielded carefully; we've admitted as much every time we've discussed the matter earnestly as opposed to just trolling around about how he's so-obviously still out there. (Hells, even the wonkiness I whine about in Gaius's character isn't the fault of any one arc, just how they undermine one another when taken together.)

I'm curious if he will technically be a protagonist. He was always at his best as a frenemy. From the very beginning of 1.0, Baelsar's been saying that Eorzea must be saved and that the world of man has no meaning if it is not owned by man. That didn't make him a friend when he came with accusations that Eorzea would surrender to Imperial rule and protection or be treated as the enemies of order to be brought salvation by force, and it didn't make him an enemy when shadow and senseless slaughter came for the realm, either.

Now, hatred of Ascians is a big umbrella to gather under, but when not agreeing on that, are there things we won't see eye to eye on?

On the other hand, Varis is literally conspiring with the Word of the Father.