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She is collared and forced to fight against primals with that summoner squad as a punishment / sentence for her crimes. Primals are still being summoned by the beastmen, but there are now other people within the confines of the game's universe that can handle them while player characters are allowed to advance the story. It's why we're not going back to the original city-states every month to put down the original three time and again. It's pretty concluded.
That's not even a story. She's committed no crimes under Imperial Law, but she's sentenced by laws that haven't been enforced since before she was born. Ex post facto laws should have protected her. And then she's been enslaved by Ala Mhigo to fight primals. What kind of story is that? What's the message here? That Ala Mhigan are absolute monsters? That they're no better than the Empire? And then she's just left to rot in a cell? How is that a conclusion? Nothing has been followed through on this story, it's just a string of injustices left forgotten by the MSQ.

Quote Originally Posted by JunseiKei View Post
If you ask me, Lyse and Fordola are so prominent in the poster because of what the characters are meant to stand for: Lyse the dreamer, fighting for her home against the hopelessness of the situation and the will to defy fate.
Fordola the survivor, betraying her birth country to live and survive, accepting the fate dealt to her.

The themes of these characters were echoed throughout all of Stormblood by minor and major characters alike.
I never got the impression that Lyse was a dreamer. She bumbled through the liberation often times making it worse and driving the Ala Mhigans to despair. Throughout the story, nepotism grants her every single advantage while Fordola experienced anti-nepotism, cursed and punished for who her family was. Echo or not, these themes and stories have no conclusions. Lyse continues to flourish from nepotism, while Fordola continues to be punished for it and the story forgets this is happening and moves on to the Warriors of Darkness.