(5.2 spoilers) The Defector

[Alleo]

I think this move of making us neutral was an EXTREMELY wise decision on the devs part since this is a teen game. Granted I do enjoy grey zones but I think there is a bit of a problem putting your hero as the person that may have essentially killed and torn apart families to protect the new life. Let's not forget it was a whole planet this was done to - that included the fate of the Ancients who still had families and children. It may have been for the "greater good" but that's still a pretty horrible act.

I agree with your points about certain character aspects but I disagree with us being neutral. Of course the WoL tries to find a solution that brings peace to both sides but we also have chosen sides more than once. In Heavensward we did try to bring peace and thankfully some dragons listen and the people of Ishgard wanted to change but we were still on the side of Ishgard. If Hraesvlgr decided not to help us or even attack us I am sure we would have done everything to protect Ishgard and thus kill a lot of dragons. With Doma and Ala Mhigo we may not kill Garlean soldiers that give up but we still choose to be against them, there was no middle ground in that conflict. We were 100% not neutral.

On the first we may have tried to reason with Emet Selch but we always stood with Humanity. Being neutral for me means that we simply dont take part in the conflict at all. Like Sharlayan likes to do. But we do take sides even if we do try to find a solution with the least amount of bloodshet.

Right now there seemingly was no solution that would have brought peace between the two ancient faction. One side is tempered and planned a huge genocide and the other side planned to imprison Zodiark because his existance would still end in a calamity. Being neutral in that situation sounds to me more like: Well I dont want any hand in this please fight this out alone. Seemingly we had no plan because Hydealyn won..or maybe our plan was the splitting (since sundering was not mentioned in that group talk) but if we had no plan then staying neutral just sounds bad to me. If you dont have a third road then there is a time where you have to take a side. If we had stayed neutral in the fight between Ala Mhigo and Garlemald (since we are an outsider) then we would not have fought for Raubahn and his people. We would have gone on and maybe fight some Ascians but 100% not fought for Ala Mhigo. The same with Doma.

About the teen game part: I mean the sundering did not kill people. The ancients were still there just split up, in that way families probably did stick together and we dont know for sure if they truly lost their memories or if that came later. Emet demonstrates this by simply showing two Rynes. There was no mention of death for that. (And the only ones left were the Amaurotines) Lets not forget that we just killed the "sahagin" queen in this very patch, including her unborn children. We took a side and decided to end it because of the slaughter of innocent people they could bring. We were not neutral at all. This game is far away from not tearing families apart. Its the sad truth of war that each side will have family that they want to protect.