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[Kesey]

No, I don't think I will.

Again, when you kill characters it removes them from the story permanently. As you just pointed out, it gives more room for other characters to take the stage and grow. Since all of the Scions are from Sharlayan, having one of them get killed by the bad guys as the world is set to end would probably be the impetus to have us journey to Sharlayan and start bringing out the big guns. The forbidden/secret knowledge and technology of Sharlayan to match the stakes that were just raised by the character death. Why not just go there, because the world is at stake? Oh, I don't know, because the world is always at stake in FFXIV. In the original timeline before G'raha and future Ironworks did their thing, the Scions and most of the world got to experience Black Rose, and we hear nothing of Sharlayan being moved to not be neutral.

Also I find it funny that to you, one of the prime reasons for character death is just an, "excuse." You've already assumed the position that my talking points, or anyone with them, do not have merit. If you get to decide how much worth my words have before I write them, then why should I try to fulfill your checklist of what you think is important? All I meant by, "I think people are making up the other side's thoughts" is that people are basically building, "Strawmen." In this case the strawman is the idea that everyone who wants characters to die just wants death for death's sake as many people keep insisting in this thread.

Asking you for evidence is challenging you to participate in the conversation, instead of taking the obstinate path of "No, I don't think I will."