Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
Gotta say, some of these arguments are frustrating. Only G’raha and Estinien suffered really?

Not Thancred, the orphan boy forced to steal to survive, who just buried his adoptive daughter and had to say goodbye to another potentially forever?

Not Y’shtola, the young girl separated from her family who grew up in a cave studying magic, has lost her eyesight and now is separated from someone she clearly cares for deeply?

Not Urianger, who watched his closest friend and love die tragically in an act of selfsacrifice and has been guilt ridden over ever since, to the point of being ashamed to see her parents, some of the only family he has left?

Not Krile, whose the only survivor of the destruction of her order and has lost her closest friends over and over?

Not Alphinaud or Alisaie, who left home as teenagers and have experienced more war in those few years since than one should experience in a lifetime, lost many of their friends and people around them to horrific circumstances and betrayal, were disowned by their father and watched their grandfather pass on?

And that’s not even including the deaths of Tesleen or Papalymo or Ysayle.

Like cmon.
I'm not sure why that would be 'frustrating' since most of that 'suffering' took place in the past and isn't remotely comparable to the extent of the suffering endured by the majority of the antagonists.

I think it's pretty safe to suggest that it's a bigger deal for someone to lose their entire family, their friends, their neighbours, their pets and their culture/society as a whole.

It's perfectly possible to sympathise with individual losses, of course, but it comes across as narcissistic preaching for the Scions to claim to have lost 'so much' when things have gone their way more often than not and everything ultimately wraps up in a neat little bow with minimal lasting consequences. As such, much of the 'burdens' they are speaking about are applicable to other people and nations.

On your list, only Krile really comes close to that and she wasn't present during the game's final stretch by virtue of not really being much of a fighter.