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

[Lauront]

Considering we were talking about the Garlean stores of the resource I'd thought it plain the context. I had forgotten how literal you try to be when you make massive leaps to argue. So I will specify. Nobody cares about taking the Garlean stores. How do we know this. 800 years of them being there and nobody being interested in it. With the advent of magitek? Still no interest to go invading to take it. Magitek is the Garlean answer to magic.

You're libel to pull something at this rate.

... you do realise that all that changed with the advent of magitek, right? Try reading the text I quoted. Feel free to die on the hill you're already languishing upon. I've little interested in expending further posts on correcting your persistent misapprehensions.

The Garleans trying to rebuild at Broken Glass have the cerulean to rebuild -and worry about the profits going to them and not Ul’dah. Which is the same issues brought up in the Stormblood patches when Nanamo conferred with Lolorito and Godbert, only swapping out Ala Mhigo and salt.

In case it's not clear what the context is for all this:

I feel like in order to be appealing targets for invasion, the Garleans need to not only be weak, but also have a resource that is worth going to war for.

Which was followed up by:

Ceruleum is currently employed by all major nations for everything from lighting to cooking, and the gradual adoption of magitek as a whole is very likely to expand that demand even further. Heck, Ishgard is about to start rocking magitek heaters. Cid's been working in Eorzea for a while, and now the Garleans themselves are pretty likely to share technology as a means of remaining useful.

To which mal responded with the quote I included in my post.

The point is Garlemald has a resource that could theoretically make it a target for future hostiles, thus meeting the criterion laid out in Kari's post.

But yes, what you mention could plausibly be taken as a concern for the Garleans too.