Fordola and Gaius - Past/Future

[Uruki]

I feel like pointing out that Regula's style only differs when he wields The Bastard, his personal weapon. When we fight him in Azys Lla, he utilizes all of the same skills as Gaius (and even borrows his theme song, which is ultimately Nael's sans vocals but plus violin) In fact, in our first tussle with Regula, he uses all of Gaius' skills. Ceruleum fire patch, Terminus Est, Hand of the Empire, Innocence, etc.

There is, disappointingly, a bit of overlap when it comes to prominent gunblade users. I personally was really disappointed that Fordola picked up a gunblade from Zenos and immediately used Terminus Est when the first Lore Book mentions it's an exceedingly difficult technique to master. However, I do concede that it's possible Fordola had training beforehand... but it never struck me as such the first time I read 4.0

STILL MORE INC

Yeah, I did the quests on an alt a few weeks after I wrote this up, and noticed that he does use the same moveset! That was an error I tried to correct in this re-posting, but I think it got lost when I was cutting it into 3000-character chunks, alas! It's still pretty interesting, because, like you said, those are moves that require training, and training in a specifically-Garlean weapon, and one that we've seen mostly upper-rank Garleans using (I think -- please correct me if I'm wrong here! I'm sort of new to lore and theories here, as FFX, FFXI, and FFXIV are the only FF-series games I've played...).