Quote Originally Posted by Akiudo View Post
same reason people did the ivalice raids for the shb relics, you can argue that you would prefer your apple without the 16 layers of gift wrapper, but that is whats offered and you can take it or leave it. honestly i don't see the need to tie it into the hildibrand quests either but really, just skip through it, its not nearly as bad as people make it out to be, skipping and blizzing through hildibrand probably will take half as long as the easiest actual relic step.
We're talking an iconic quest line, that talks about one's parent's legacy, destiny, and war traume along with following healing from it VS Hildy quest.

Pardon me, but StB allies are at least interesting.