btw I really dont care for the Garlean Empire anyway, even during ARR. To me they were just a watered down version of the Archadian Empire from FFXII, but with none of the charisma. I dont know why people have a weird impression that the Garleans were this "deep" and "relatable" interesting group of people when they're whole shtick was for them to conquer the world because of the megalomaniac thoughts of a madman wanting to unite the world against primals when they're clearly causing more of a threat and danger to the world and themselves with their silly wars. Like were did you guys even came up with that? The only actual interesting bit of lore that we got was from the Sorrow of Werlyt story and that was post-Shb.

Even then the Archadian Empire werent that much better. They just had a more cooler history imo and in my mind I was hoping Garlemald's capital would be akin to the grandiose and beauty that was the city of Archades in FFXII but that wasnt ever happening lol