Quote Originally Posted by Kesey View Post
Because taking the over the palace stops the civil war that erupted following the death of Solus. Fandaniel wearing the skin of an influential person allows the people to not question who he is. Giving them control of the Empire and it's resources to say, idk, start the end of the world. The real question is what will they do bring back Zodiark? And why do they need an army to do it? Probably because we are going anywhere but the Empire.
I really don't think taking over the palace stops the civil war. If anything slaughtering people at their seat of governance is more likely to turn everything into total anarchy and lead the Legions to be more autonomous forces, because there's no orders coming from anyone they'd be willing to follow.

Rather than the subversion in 6.0 being WHERE we go, it may be WHY we go there. Instead of conquering Garlemald, it'll be to save them from Zenos' tyranny.

As an aside, I don't think he needs to go anywhere else to get his big Primal battle either - Supposedly there's a gigantic hole in the Garlean capital that happens to lead to the strongest Primal of all time. Why should Zenos settle for Zodiark locked in the moon, already fallen and defeated, when he can take the force that sundered him, which happens to be plugged directly into the greatest font of aether in existence? On this, I don't think it's a coincidence that Venat means "hunter".

So, yeah, if I was placing bets, Garlemald would be number one in the odds.