Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
The WoD were working directly with the Ascians with the explicit goal of tormenting the beast tribes into summoning more and more Primals, for the WoD to hunt down and kill (along with lots of beastmen), to drive them deeper and deeper into despair and desperation, until they turned to, implicitly, Zodiark. The entire strategy was basically to torture the Beast Tribes until they set off a Calamity which would, obviously, kill millions of people. No, obviously, Ardbert and crew did not directly march in and kill Ga Bu's parents before him, but they were knowingly participating and aiding in the scheme that set the scene for that - and who knows how many other incidents like it - to happen. Ga Bu was meant to be the humanized, individualized face of the result of that suffering and horror.

Saying the WoD are innocent of what happened to Ga Bu would be like saying Emet is innocent of destroying most of the other Shards since he probably wasn't directly involved, as the Ascians worked mostly independently on various Shards and Emet seemed to mostly operate on the Source. That would be an absurd argument to make.
Hmm, I was more saying that the WoDs didnt do the whole 'torture' thing to the Kobolds themselves, but then I realised the only reason we knew Garuda was being summoned at Xelphatol was because Alisaie listened in, otherwise the WoD would have killed her silently, and may have indeed done this multiple times to the the other tribes w/o getting the Eorzean Alliance to notice, so I can concede the Ga Bu point to you.