Yotsuyu, the irredeemable monster

[Shuuchi]

Stupid question time: are you referring to Elidibus the dude, or... salvation!Elidibus? The first one does strike me as heroic due to what he chooses, but the second is more like something that MUST continue due to what he’s become. Long as we’re here, WoL at the end of ARR always seemed like that to me too, not particularly heroic, no longer with enough people or resources to interrupt a Garlean picnic, just being forced to go to a different place (and a place where they can expect nothing good) because they aren’t left with a better choice at that point.

Elidibus, the dude.
Especially when he realized that his meddling had inadvertently caused the demise of what little remained of his friends, whom he cared for more than anything in the world, including himself, Elidibus kept a stiff upper lip and kept moving forward.
He is now the last, and only ember of hope left remaining.
The sheer weight of the guilt on his shoulders, piled atop his seemingly impossible duty, must have been unbearable.

At the end of ARR, the WoL was betrayed by the very people we were trying to protect and even had to slay those we have shared a bond with.
As far as the WoL knew*, the friends who stood alongside us this whole time are all dead.
The blood we shed, our feats and accomplishments, all reduced to naught in an instant.
We don’t even have a place to call home.
Having fallen from 100 to 0 in such a brutal manner, how easy it would be to simply let go and slip into a dark, gentle place.
But that’s not what makes a hero, a hero.

*We as players knew the scions had infinite plot-armor, but that’s metagaming. The WoL would not know that.