*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[KariTheFox]

I'm not sure why, maybe because he was representing the unpopular rare Auri M face, or the voice actor, or just because I loved Thavnair aesthetically as a zone, but Ahewann's death hit my harder than a majority of other deaths in the MSQ. And to me the sequence with Matsya and the baby and the lead up to trying to find his friends and the despair that we couldn't save them- and almost lost him and the baby- was the most effective use of terror and sorrow that XIV has done, dwarfing ARR patches or HW.

He was a delightful character, it was refreshing to meet a truly benevolent leader and be treated with genuine respect by him. It was awful to see him die so brutally as he was trying to calm the fears of his people.

And the fact that both G'raha and Estinien stepped up to fill his role in a time of crisis was powerful. G'raha drawing on his experience as the Crystal Exarch, who guided the inhabitants of the first and helped them to feel safe, calming down a panicking population. And Estinien teaming up with Vrtra to help protect the people of Thavnair - showing how far he's come from his days of killing dragons because he had been taught to hate them, now he's helping one through his pain, even forming a bond of friendship through thier shared grief. I really enjoyed both of them getting that.

Character deaths like that, I can appreciate because the way other characters react leads to compelling stories. I do not want or need character death for the sake of demonstrating how high the stakes are.

[Veloran]

He was a delightful character, it was refreshing to meet a truly benevolent leader and be treated with genuine respect by him.

Almost every leader we meet in this game is nice and respectful. Usually the only ones that fall outside that purview end up being outright villains that we kill.