The key to Azys Lla

[SaberMaxwell]

Everything from "We're fresh from killing a sky whale god" to "we were surprise attacked" could apply here; you said it yourself, we were ambushed.

[Elladie]

Everything from "We're fresh from killing a sky whale god" to "we were surprise attacked" could apply here; you said it yourself, we were ambushed.

The WoL isn't ambushed in the sense that Igeroyhm jumped out and had them in a headlock before they could do anything. If this had been the case, I wouldn't be querying it. If Igeroyhm crept up and tangled the WoL in darkness before they even knew she was there, fine. Not what happens though. They just stand there and get talked at for quite some time without even trying to draw a weapon.

I can kind of swallow the Blessing of Light being missing as a reason for us losing, but not as a reason for us not even trying to fight. It makes no sense. We just found this REALLY IMPORTANT ARTIFACT but we just let the bad guys take it off us.

Don't get me wrong, I love the story and think they've done a fantastic job with most of it. Which is why episodes like this bother me. They make no sense. It feels like the writers just got impatient and wanted to rush to the next bit without bothering to make it internally consistent.

Stuff like this throws me out of the story, breaks my immersion, or however you want to describe it. It was a moment of real dissonance for me (obviously this stands out more on a replay of the game though) akin to the moment in ARR when Iceheart breaks the ward around Ishgard and goes all 'Mwahahaha'. Fine when she's being touted as a villain but completely out of character for Ysayle

Igeyorhm: I see you have regained the blessing of Light- albeit at a fraction of its former strength.

Yeah she caught us off guard though we did some stupid choices but hey we were tired after fighting a primal and unblocking one of the Crystal's of light... so yeah not hard to see that it happened and why.

Sadly I disagree. Not hard to see that we might not prevail, but very hard to see why we don't even attempt to stop it. Us attempting to stop it could have comfortably ended in our 'defeat' allowing the Idyllshire chapter to proceed as planned. The scene as it stands now is very poorly done.