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

[SentioftheHoukai]

The Garleans conquered people and regions in Ilsabard, Othard, and Aldenard that were not Garlean (even Corvos was pointed out in-game contrary to Garlean claims to have people that claimed it as a homeland long before the Garleans and whom were still living there when the Garleans invaded). The Garleans actively engaged in cultural erasure; that’s one of their Empire’s core characteristics (and the first religion and traditional government and practices like Jobs that was suppressed was their own). So yes, that the other conquered Garlean regions will be like Dalmasca, Doma, Werlyt, Bozja, Corvos, Ala Mhigo, and Xangia is something I will be pleased with. And they all have rightful reason to resent their conquerors or not, and there is a plethora of ways to take the story of their liberations and how they chart their post-Imperial freedom. Landros for example tried to conquer its neighbors and be Imperial Garlemald lite. The countries aligned with the Scions, so far, haven’t. And the Scion-allied Eorzean Alliance is right now in Garlemald itself explicitly to protect the Garleans there from being exploited or invaded by others. Time will tell if that effort is successful or continues. Or what stories FFXIV wishes to tell outside its borders, if it’s not a rehash of what’s already been done with all of Stormblood, Ivalice, Bozja, and Werlyt.

Ah, whataboutisms and "they deserved it, for they were the oppressors not us, never us."

You love to see it.~ ;3

Frankly, it doesn't matter if Garlemald didn't live in Corvos first. What matters is that they lived there, and we have evidence they were pushed out by violence fueled by envy. What we do not have evidence for, is that they conquered to get in. Not the first time. But I waste my breath, for I speak to the same manner of poster who'd try and rationalize that the displaced pre-Empire Garleans had no right to hold a grudge, build an Empire, and do unto others what was done to them.

And so I inquire, where is that attitude and rationalization now? Now that the coin hath been flipped, where is the forgiveness, the insight, the mercy?

The FORGE AHEAD~

Did it go somewhere? Or perhaps, was it never there to begin with?