Tales from the Dawn #4: "A Question of Death" (Jullus)

[Cleretic]

Ooh, a story about an event we didn't already know about! I love it, and the Garleans were honestly the most compelling part of Endwalker's writing, so I'm always happy to see us go there. (Followed by sad at 'oh right, the entire civilization was ground into dust by a selfish fight idiot and a suicidal wizard-scientist').

That glimpse of the photo says a whole lot without being definite about any of it; seems like none of the Royal Family was very happy at all even in their best days. And hey, a mention of the women of the royal family, that's vanishingly rare.

Even with the dour tone of the story, there was a single point I had to laugh at, though.

Why hello there, person we took the key from during In From the Cold. Didn't expect to see you here!

EDIT: Something largely unrelated to the story, but struck me when thinking about events related to it and I'm stunned I didn't realize it before:

The Garlean Empire named their main class of magitek walkers after their original vanguard of defenders.