Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
But then, we have Lahabrea mercilessly delivering an extremely long monologue of exposition about Hydalean before trying to murder the Warrior of Light in the MSQ roulette. Utterly no point in explaining any of this if the intent is to kill the Warrior of Light and that does seem to be their intent so I'm not even sure arrogance and pride can be an excuse. Ascians are diametrically opposed to agents of Hydaelyn, there's no reason not to cause the Warrior of Light's mission to fail. I can understand Thordan VII leaving the WoL alone since he's a neutral party, but the Ascians are not neutrally aligned to the Warrior of Light.
Honestly I'm not sure how representative the MSQ roulette duties are, because everyone in those monologues incessantly, like holy carp. I can only assume it's due to the writers at the time not being able to really write a convincing "final dungeon" type of dialogue without motive rants.

Like, Livia definitely intends to kill us, and monologues at us about being thirsty for Gaius. Nero sees us as a mere roadblock on the way to Proving Himself Over Cid, and monologues about it endlessly too. And then we have Gaius "How Glib" van Baelsar, who made a good effort to try to kill us multiple times, and has a monologue about it every time.

Lahabrea was either influencing the XIVth Legion rather too much, or he decided that if everyone was going to prepare a speech, he might as well join in.