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Thankfully it doesn't appear as though the writing is going in such a direction as the writers themselves have made no secret of the various in-game conflicts being a matter of perspective rather than black and white morality. Garlemald is very much based off of the Roman Empire, which is pretty complex in itself - but there's no reason for the Eorzean Alliance to swoop in and start executing people just because they previously supported expansionist policies. (Something which every nation, real world or in-game has done at some point).

Though if you insist on such a route, I look forward to you shoving the likes of Aymeric, Artoriel and Edmont into a guillotine for supporting the former regime that led Ishgard. Ignorance isn't an excuse, right?

Jests aside, Cid's good at engineering but has shown very little nuance in regards to political or cultural matters. He's a defector who turned on his own people instead of working to reform things from within. That he falsely blamed Varis and Solus for shooting him rather than his father due to trauma also leads one to question his mental stability.

I think it's pretty likely that Garlemald will go in a similar direction to Ishgard. It'll undergo reform, but the Eorzean Alliance isn't going to obsessively seek to punish the Garleans. Especially since the only reason Garlemald became an Empire in the first place is due to the Garleans themselves being unable to use aether in most cases and being driven to near extinction by their neighbours.

If anything, it'll be a story about breaking the cycle and establishing Garlemald as having a seat at the table as Eorzea's equal.

False equivalency, The Lords Aymeric, Artoriel, and Edmont discovered the truth behind a thousand year war of survival and immediately worked to let the truth be known. Though I would gladly swing the axe for the people if they so choose. I'm not exactly married to the idea of keeping titles of Nobility and the holier than thou mentality as I personally dislike it in real life.

Gaius on the other hand is a war criminal and known tyrant and slaver. The men of Ala Mhigo were put to hard labor and the women were made to do "far worse". Policies I'm sure that would have carried into the rest of Eorzea had he not been stopped at Silvertear. That's your preferred ruler? Gaius "adopt them to bop them" Van Baelsar? Who knowingly worked with an Ascian as a tool to his detriment. Fine, I will throw out another alternative, imprisonment and a trial. Nuremburg style. Again, I would volunteer to swing the axe. I only say this due to your comment about Rome being the framework of Garlemald. So corruption, heavy handed policies, and weak leaders. Yeah, that matches up. Why reward them?


Nerva? lol

I don’t think the Alliances have any right to dictate what’s considered wrong considering each of them is corrupt in their own way.

Neither do the losers of a war they started.



I'll grant you that the Garleans were bullied early on. But until evidence is given otherwise? I'm going with the Ascians creating a slave race with a chip on it's shoulder to instigate a war and cause mayhem the world over to make the beast tribes summon primals to justify expansion to create more conflict to create havoc... etc. etc.