Garlemald and Azys Lla

[Enkidoh]

How safe is it to assume that the 6th is only at a fraction of its strength in HW? If so, is it more likely to be a large or a small fraction?



And then I would expect whoever is currently the viceroy in Azys Lla (as of 5.3; I would assume the current viceroy to be in office since Regula's death) to become a champion of those Garleans who would rather remain neutral in the Garlean civil war.

Or, barring that, to become the leader of an isolationist "Garlemald remnant" faction if Garlemald does collapse in the future.

What viceroy? Azys Lla is an ancient Allagan research facility that few people even know exist that is completely empty of anyone other than some Allagan nodes and the trapped VIth Legion, it's not an Imperial province so it would have no viceroy - the VIth were basically marooned there due to Ysayle freezing the engines of the Gration resulting in the ship being stuck there permenantly with no way out. The Empire has never sent any further reinforcements to the place or even tried evacutating the forces stuck there, so it can be assumed they've been given up for dead, especially with Regula's death, the Empire probably considers his legion extinct and not worth bothering with anymore.

So they're just remnant forces there, just like the remains of Gaius's XIVth still holed up in their assorted Castri within Eorzea, strong enough to resist any attempts by the Alliance to clear them out, but not strong enough to do anything else but defend their walls accordingly. And the Alliance has more pressing matters with pushing back Garlean forces on the border with Islabard to worry about a bunch of remnant Garlean forces holed up in Eorzea who are now little more than bandits in Garlean uniforms.