Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Yeah, no worries. I think some sites have made room for new stuff by getting rid of older interviews since there's a few I remember reading that I haven't been able to find despite knowing exactly what phrase to put into a search engine in order to get them to appear. I set out to bookmark some for a while but there's honestly so many that it became too much work. Especially when accounting for different language variants.
I wasn't able to find the interview, but it does say in the EE that female heirs in the Imperial Court have no claim to the throne and are titled "wir". The emperor's mom and wife get to be "yae" but that's still on the same level as all male members of the royal family who are listed as being in the actual line of succession, which seems to imply male-only inheritance. So I don't believe Gaius would recommend Svetlana unless he were desperate or he happened to be very progressive. Then there the matter of the remaining legions. As we've seen multiple times, except for the 1st legion, the rest are more loyal to their legatus than to the throne.


On the topic of Svetlana, I just realized that would be a Hrothgar name. There's even a name example in the Hrothgar naming conventions thread that starts with "Svet", which is a pan-Slavic word for "light", which pulls from the cultural pool that Hrothgar use. And there's also her actions. It seems to be a bit out-of-character for the game's theme to have a "benevolent" Imperial character decide that the conquered territories are better off with the Garlean Empire considering a whole expansion was spent on their liberation. And then cartoonishly out-of-character to blame atrocities on the Senate just because OP doesn't like republics.

It also appears that the WoL basically does nothing in the first of the two expansions laid out. A story where we go back to being the mute do-nothing feels like a step back from Shadowbringers where a lot of the appeal was the fact that we were actually the main character. Instead, that spot has been replaced with yet another in the line of important MSQ blonde girls after Minfilia, Ysayle (ish), Lyse, and Minifilia, so yay for consistency at least?

That's changed in the 2nd half of the OP but the rest just feels like a rant post because they don't like Venat. We already see her at the very end of Shadowbringers and that characterization doesn't fit in with the post. Let alone our interactions with Hydaelyn elsewhere in the game.