Regarding Titus yae Galvus

[ElizanderNorisse]

No. Lucia’s reports stated that he was alive and him and his son Nerva took advantage of the rumours of Zenos being possessed. He may have lost the war of successions but he wasn’t killed by Varis. Can’t be more clearer than that.

[MikkoAkure]

No. Lucia’s reports stated that he was alive and him and his son Nerva took advantage of the rumours of Zenos being possessed. He may have lost the war of successions but he wasn’t killed by Varis. Can’t be more clearer than that.

My point was that my opinion is that it's a writing mistake since that's the only source we have for his continued existence and everything else in the game seems to at least suggest his demise. If he was more important to the plot and the current state of Garlemald, he would have been mentioned more than just once in a throwaway line.

If he's secretly alive, why has no one brought up him taking the throne, why is Nerva considered a possible "next-in-line" when his dad is supposedly alive, and why is a Garlean officer like Maxima going around representing the Populares, the faction that Titus himself created?

It's going to take more than that one line to convince me he's still kicking.

[Cleretic]

Also that line only confirms he was alive as of Stormblood. That's a whole lot of political turmoil still available for opponents to have unceremoniously lopped off his head. You really think Zenos wouldn't have?

We've reached a point where the story saying he isn't dead and is suddenly relevant would feel like more of an ass-pull than revealing that he died while nobody was looking.

[MercuryD]

I thought it was mentioned before that Nerva was last of the royals now that Zenos is dead. That's one of the reasons for recreating the Senate in order to form a new governing body for the surviving Garleans.

[ElizanderNorisse]

Nope I don’t think so.

Have you seen Garlemald? The survivors were struggling, and all the more reason to remain hidden. Even Lyon calls both him & his son cowards in the Bozjan quest. But like I mentioned in the first page, he may have died during the final days after the guard failed to protect the royal household from the rampaging magitek. And Titus may have been one of the casualties.

I’m yet to be convinced that he died before Endwalker in the War of Successions in A Realm Reborn. Again, that line is proof that he didn’t.

[ElizanderNorisse]

Also that line only confirms he was alive as of Stormblood. That's a whole lot of political turmoil still available for opponents to have unceremoniously lopped off his head. You really think Zenos wouldn't have?

We've reached a point where the story saying he isn't dead and is suddenly relevant would feel like more of an ass-pull than revealing that he died while nobody was looking.

Well some people are good at escaping so who knows. Titus is seen a coward so o wouldn’t doubt that he survived him. Look at Nerva, he turned into a blasphemy after 6.0. And people thought he was killed by him.

[Cleretic]

Well some people are good at escaping so who knows. Titus is seen a coward so o wouldn’t doubt that he survived him. Look at Nerva, he turned into a blasphemy after 6.0. And people thought he was killed by him.

That just sounds like not only has he got a good chance of dying where nobody will notice him (because... you know, a coward is wont to hide), but that the remnants of Garlemald probably don't want him even if he does turn back up. Garlemald's in a real bad state right now, the last thing it wants or needs is a total coward turning up out of nowhere to declare himself their leader by birthrite.

[Denishia]

For narrative reasons Titus coming back except for one reason just doesn't make sense when instead any role he could fill makes sense for a new character. Garlemald controlled by the Galvus family dictators has been done and through Varis, Zenos, and Nerva, firmly killed off. Nerva especially was the last blasphemy personification of trying to hold onto that seat of power and empire and political form of Garlemald even after the other remaining Garleans admitted it no longer existed and only some holdout former colonists from Corvus held onto the delusion that it could be restored, falling prey to the Blasphemy's tempering. The role quest hammers home that whatever rebirth there is for Garlemald, a Galvus at its helm isn't it.

I could see very old man cowardly Titus kept alive solely to do a small scene of 'old man reacts to new societal order' plus 'you'll never have power, confirmed one more time' - but there's plenty of Garlean characters to use for that.

What's far more likely is among the factions in the Garlean Senate trying to rebuild their country after the decades of Galvus (mis)rule culminated in the rubble of their country is another surviving Garlean noble family trying to set itself up as the new imperial family politically and/or the legatus-turned-warlords doing the same militarily, using the Might Makes Right legitimacy that Solus did to change the government. New character who could do everything narratively that a surviving Titus could without any of his implausible survival and Nerva's existence and completed storyline is far more likely, if the writers decide that's the direction the Garlean conflict will turn to.

[Lustre]

I wouldn't expect much in the way of garlemald related storylines in the future. The devs seem insistent on sweeping them to the side as quickly and as messily as possible.

[Denishia]

Sadly I don't think I'll ever get my Nuremburg Trials for any of the remaining Garlean higher-ups. Quintus offed himself so he can't faced trial and there's very few remaining high command and the only remnants are the few surviving Senators. And even the ex-Garlean slaves living right outside the city have only one side-quest bit before being brushed aside. But there's still four patches to go and later expansions - we returned to Ishgard, Ala Mhigo, and Doma to continue to address their lingering social problems after overthrowing their old oppressive political systems. Only the places in Norvrandt have a 'done' feeling to their political status.