Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
As others have mentioned though…Ilsabard is huge. It’s not just Garlemald. Garlemald could be the focal point sure, but there’s so many other areas there to explore. Hell, if we actually were going to get a garlemald expansion then what happened to it in ShB might be different who knows. Fact is they had a lot to draw upon. Especially if you take into account the whole gabranth storyline as well.
ShB would've had to have been a lot different for it to work out. At some point we're just going to have to admit that ShB did not take the story in a good direction just because it was amazingly well-written in a vacuum. As great as it was in that vacuum, it was extremely short-sighted in how it handled story threads.

I'm also pretty sure Ishikawa didn't know that we'd not have a Garlemald expansion until after ShB's main story was done, so it was already too late.