Quote Originally Posted by Slatersev View Post
SB has the most egregious survival of a character that should have died in the games history, lol.

Gosetsu and Yotsuyu surviving Doman Castle is the hardest the game ever backed out of a consequnce.

Though that really describes base Stormblood in its entirety, only two minor friendly NPC's died and I would bet most players wouldn't even remember there names.
Yeah.

And the whole Nanamo/Uldah situation was cleanly backpedaled to the status quo minus one Raubahn arm. So I wouldn't even really say ARR had consequences.

I mean I guess some random npcs died in the attack on the waking sands but nobody I remember. None of the main scions.

HW did have some. Horsefont died, Ysale died, Moenbryda died late ARR, and Popalymo didn't come back.

But the game has never been super heavy on consequence.

The attack on rhalgr's reach made us go to Doma I guess but the resistance didn't have to abandon their base.

Attacking Zenos in Doma had no negative consequences AT ALL and actually helped us in the long run.

Thancred and Yshtola have ostensibly had consequences of their lifestream dips but it never seems to actually pose a hinderance to them. Thancred can't use aether? he can still punch out a giant during the grand tourney or be super spy or badass gunbreaker tank etc.

Actual consequences are the exception in this story not the rule, and it's not just SHB that's written this way.