Sundering stuff established in the Q&A

[KageTokage]

Given the next story is (Probably) going to be more grounded by necessity, I don't think whatever conflict is going on will be quite as world-shaking as Endwalker's and thus less controversial by nature.

A divide between the peace-seeking Garleans and the others stubbornly clinging to their patriotism and the old ways seems like an obvious direction they could go in and would provide a different flavor of political conflict from what we got in Heavensward and Stormblood. It would also provide an alternative means of providing the Garlemald-focused expansion they had originally been planning on before they decided to resolve the current story arc sooner then later.

[Rulakir]

A divide between the peace-seeking Garleans and the others stubbornly clinging to their patriotism and the old ways seems like an obvious direction they could go in and would provide a different flavor of political conflict from what we got in Heavensward and Stormblood. It would also provide an alternative means of providing the Garlemald-focused expansion they had originally been planning on before they decided to resolve the current story arc sooner then later.

Do you think Garlemald is going to get a lion's share of the focus going forward? It could work if it's something like Thordan. I understood his reasoning, but I knew his methods were flawed. It wasn't that dissimilar from Garlemald, although, I'm tired of the "if I/we control everything then the world will be a utopia" motivation.

I suspect we're not done with sympathetic antagonists though, which is more why I'm concerned. I'm not interested in an Ascians 2.0 where my heart breaks for the antagonist that I'm eventually going to be forced to destroy or, worse, having my WoL champion values I don't adhere to while I fundamentally agree with the antagonist. The last two years of real life has been enough conflict in values to last the rest of my days, frankly. :P I'd rather have a return to a Yotsuyu type villain for at least one expansion. Someone who's fun to hate, who I won't feel bad about defeating, and whose story I don't mind being over at the end of the MSQ.