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

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I'd rather trust a Larsa...

Instead we get regime change driven by a 16 year old elf

The two characters are practically mirror images of each other, only Larsa is twelve. I don't understand your preoccupation with one and dismissiveness towards another.

I agree the previous senate shouldn't be responsible for the new Garlemald either - by all accounts what we've heard about them is little better than what we've seen so far from its rulers - but I don't really have an answer to your claim that Garlemald without a monarchy is automatically boring. To each their own, I suppose? I hope XVI gives you what you're looking for.

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The Ascians had lost their people and their world. The Garleans, on the other hand, acted out of little more than revenge, spite and arrogance. They had nothing to gain by conquest save more power and resources. They're not comparable.

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Very well-said.