6.0 Predictions: Will it be Garlemald, Sharlayan, or Meracydia?

[JeanneOrnitier]

I'd love to go to Meracydia, but even more than I can't see why we would go there, I can't see why the Garleans would go there. Even if we don't go to Garlemald proper things are still building up to a big confrontation with them and have been for a while. Wherever we're going next we'll probably go because Garlemald is doing something there, and I can't imagine what they'd be doing in a place that's 95% wasteland.

[Cilia]

I'd love to go to Meracydia, but even more than I can't see why we would go there, I can't see why the Garleans would go there. Even if we don't go to Garlemald proper things are still building up to a big confrontation with them and have been for a while. Wherever we're going next we'll probably go because Garlemald is doing something there, and I can't imagine what they'd be doing in a place that's 95% wasteland.

As it stands the Garlean Empire as a unified fighting force has been defanged. We're dealing with individual Legions in the Sorrow of Werlyt / Resistance Weapon questlines, each of which is pursuing their own agendas... because the Emperor was assassinated and the named heir abdicated the throne. After those two questlines are wrapped up (and they will be after 5.5), it's anyone's guess as to what the Empire is going to do as a whole.

Splinter into various fiefdoms ruled by warlord ex-Legatuses?
Rally behind a new Emperor?

Either way, the civil war it's currently embroiled in should leave the Empire a non-threat for the foreseeable future. Unlike the Varis / Titus war, to our knowledge this one is a free-for-all among all the surviving Legatuses (minus Noah van Gabranth, whose exact agenda remains unclear).

The ones to really watch out for are Zenos and his accomplice, whose agenda(s) also remain unclear beyond Zenos desiring Zodiark's power.