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Ishgard, Ala Mhigo, Eulmore, and now Garlemald. One after the other bending to modern day moral frameworks, shattering the fantasy with Alphinaud as the spokesperson for it all. The person preaching constantly about the virtues of freedom and democracy is always him. It's gotten tiresome. Each time sucking more and more of the fantasy out of FFXIV's world.

I am tired of sitting through stories in FFXIV that end with nations turning into democracies and republics. At this point it would a shocking display of creativity if a nation were to actually keep its monarch instead of having them turn out to be evil villains that must be put down by the Scions and their crusade of spreading liberty and freedom across the world.
FFXIV takes place with a similar level of technology and societal change as Europe had that led to its own overthrow of monarchies so it's no surprise. Each of those examples you provide have reason and context for their becoming democracies and only one of them even has a monarch they could keep who even wants to rule. You can't create something that isn't there for a people that don't want it.


Ishgard was a theocracy for 1000 years because of a forever war of their own creation. The government maintained their power because only through the government and its military could its citizens survive. When that war was removed from the equation, its citizens were armed with guns that leveled the playing field against the old regime-supporting knights, and it was revealed that the war was a lie caused by the original government screwing everything up, the people wanted power and the old ruler's benevolent son gave it to them. For christ's sake, the people you support in this who wanted the monarchy back and wanted the Dragonsong War to start over again tried to stab Aymeric to death and threw a child off a roof.

Ala Mhigo's royal family was completely destroyed by the first rebellion and the Garlean occupation. The only remaining royal has no intention at all about having anything to do with the government and absolutely refuses to even let people know he exists. The last native monarch also tried killing everyone. In the absence of a surviving royal, the country was liberated in part by regular citizens who were part of a rebellion, not Ala Mhigan nobility. It makes 0 sense in the context of the world for them to restart a monarchy.

Eulmore's last ruler turned people into monsters which he fed back to his people to keep them in line. He was also the last of his line.

Garlemald was a republic for ~600 years and a monarchy for 60. I don't see what the problem is with them going back to what they were doing for most of their whole existence, especially when their status as a monarchy caused 2 civil wars that killed the majority of their population.