What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Theodric]

I think that Garlemald would have benefitted from being more than one zone but as a big fan of the Garleans in general I found that many elements aligned rather well with their established lore. It was also neat to see more of the Roman and Russian influences upon their culture in play.

With that said, the Garlean story is far from over and there's a good chance that we'll be seeing some sort of Garlean themed reconstruction effort during 6.1 and beyond. I'm particularly excited to see more of Jullus who, along with Emet and Hythlodaeus, served to make the expansion tolerable to me.

[Seiori]

Jullus was a great addition to the story and enjoyed all my interaction with pretty much all the ancients besides that one researcher that seemed to have personal beef with Azem lol.

[FrightfulNight]

I think that Garlemald would have benefitted from being more than one zone but as a big fan of the Garleans in general I found that many elements aligned rather well with their established lore. It was also neat to see more of the Roman and Russian influences upon their culture in play.

With that said, the Garlean story is far from over and there's a good chance that we'll be seeing some sort of Garlean themed reconstruction effort during 6.1 and beyond. I'm particularly excited to see more of Jullus who, along with Emet and Hythlodaeus, served to make the expansion tolerable to me.

I do hope with the twins being involved that they get started on that story right away in 6.1 since out of all the nation's added in EW I would say it is in the most desperate state, This would also allow them to introduce a resotration project in 6.1 and have it built upon throughout the expansion. Besides that the fact that with how big a role it has played in the story is and the fact that it only has one zone is why I am hoping 7.0 is an Ilsabard expansion and is not just us going to Meracydia or the New World right away, if that is the case then it will just feel like a more Garlean themed expansion that would have added Ilsabard was sacrificed at some point in the move to have the story end in 6.0.

Although personally I think it allows for more interesting story's to take place in Ilsabard now that are not just SB 2.0 since I like that each of the expansions have a unique theme and story. Also if I recall Ilsabard suffered the most damages with both the civil war and final days so it would be the responsible thing to help the people living there in 7.0 instead of being irresponsible and careless and instead of just going to Meracydia or the New World right away just because adventure. It would do a better job of giving people that European fantasy aesthetic that everyone wants and would do a good job of better wrapping up the Garlean storyline. Maybe the hub city or endgame zone will be Landis and we can also get a magiteck city that is not destroyed to see it in more civilian use since i kind of got the impression Landis was the Constantinople to Garlemald's Rome.