What is your biggest wish for endwalker that you know probably won't happen?

[not_ya_wify]

Keep the Ascians, get rid of the empire. It feels like the Ascians JUST become a really cool villain and now the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is already ending? I'm not ready to let go.

Honestly, I'm still hoping Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, Elidibus, Mitros and Minfilia get reborn. Maybe on the first or a different shard where time runs faster, so we can meet them as adults and they're all untempered but still as powerful as Amaurotines and still want to rejoin the souls of the living but without death and destruction. I want Amaurotines back. I want to bring them back to life.

I know the game won't have us help the Ascians. Instead we are forced to murder them which makes me really hate the WoL, Alphinaud and Aliasae. It just feels like moral injury to murder Ascians. And the WoL is showing no remorse.

[Theodric]

Keep the Ascians, get rid of the empire.

I'd rather keep and help both, given that the Ascians and Garleans were both dealt a very poor hand and unlike the protagonists, never had the luxury of plot convenience and 'I WIN' buttons to overcome any and all obstacles placed before them. Furthermore, the inability for Pureblood Garleans to manipulate aether - with rare exceptions - makes for a pretty cool premise in a setting where aether is actively used to get ahead by every other race. Unfortunately that particular aspect of their background was never really played up as much as it should have been.

[Kusanagi7]

I'd rather keep and help both, given that the Ascians and Garleans were both dealt a very poor hand and unlike the protagonists, never had the luxury of plot convenience and 'I WIN' buttons to overcome any and all obstacles placed before them. Furthermore, the inability for Pureblood Garleans to manipulate aether - with rare exceptions - makes for a pretty cool premise in a setting where aether is actively used to get ahead by every other race. Unfortunately that particular aspect of their background was never really played up as much as it should have been.

I would keep garleans since sum of them aren’t so bad but I would get rid of the ascians don’t know about anyone else but I would never help a group that has slaughtered countless of innocent people by their rejoinings I’m surprised that doesn’t matter to you but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.

[Lauront]

Keep the Ascians, get rid of the empire. It feels like the Ascians JUST become a really cool villain and now the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is already ending? I'm not ready to let go.

Honestly, I'm still hoping Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, Elidibus, Mitros and Minfilia get reborn. Maybe on the first or a different shard where time runs faster, so we can meet them as adults and they're all untempered but still as powerful as Amaurotines and still want to rejoin the souls of the living but without death and destruction. I want Amaurotines back. I want to bring them back to life.

I know the game won't have us help the Ascians. Instead we are forced to murder them which makes me really hate the WoL, Alphinaud and Aliasae. It just feels like moral injury to murder Ascians. And the WoL is showing no remorse.

Although I'll echo Theodric's desire to keep Garlemald around, I agree with this mostly. I'd even be keen on keeping Zodiark and, I suppose, Hydaelyn around, e.g. if they were to be merged and continued to be useful.

Same here. Ever since Stormblood XIV has been feeling less and less like Japanese rpgs I enjoy and more like Eorzean Second Life unless you're into savage and ultimate content. I want to see the plot I care about wrap up first hand but once that's done Im not planning on staying. After all, the writing was the one thing I would absolutely agree they were doing very well. But then 5.1~5.55 happened.

It also depends on how they handle it for me. If it's done poorly, it could serve as a bellwether of what to expect of future writing.