To add to what I said before, I have no problem with the idea of monarchies on their own. My personal opinion is that just as in real life, democracy isn't for everyone and not for every country. The writers don't necessarily have a problem with monarchies either, or else Doma would not have remained a monarchy at the end and Hien would have been all "let's give the power to the people instead" like Aymeric, who had good reason to do so considering his dad's regime lived on a lie and the people who were angry about that now have ideas and also guns.


Ala Mhigo, Garlemald, Eulmore, and Bozja's monarchies end with no clear or willing successors. In Ala Mhigo's case, the country is taken by force by a rebellion made up of commoners. There is one royal successor who refuses to be ruler and would have no supporting noble class to rule with anyway. In what world would it make sense for them to select a random person and say "you, who have no experience ruling a country shall rule for life and so shall your descendants"? You can't have a monarchy out of just 1 guy descended from other guys. It requires a whole supporting structure and power/legitimacy which is usually made up of the nobility leading a strong and regimented social structure plus the military and often the religious addition: "it's this way with these people because the divine said so". Remove any one of those and your monarchy doesn't have anything to sit upon.

Besides the aforementioned Ishgard, Ala Mhigo and Bozja were taken by rebel forces with egalitarian ideas after their country's previous regimes were already conquered, replaced, and either don't exist anymore or at least aren't present in the newly conquering rebelling armies.

Eulmore was just 1 guy who created a super unbalanced and messed up society and fed his own people to each other to control them. After being killed as a Light Warden and leaving a power vacuum, it would leave a bad taste in players' mouths if the writers decided to elect a new mayor-for-life among the super elite who were living extravagantly like the world is ending (because it was) off the backs of people who are thrown off the city, turned into monsters, and live in shacks amongst garbage.

As for Garlemald, they had 2 civil wars over the legitimacy of the government determined by legions having different ideas and different factions. Now the remaining legions that we know about are completely depleted, have become POWs and give support to the Ilsabard Contingent, or both. The royal family and related nobles are dead.

Aveyond's story even required making up someone random that came from nowhere with no prior build-up or mention at all in earlier content, with no support from existing factions inside Garlemald, and inventing new and contradicting rules of succession for them to take the Garlean throne. She is chosen by Gaius (who by the way is believed by the entire Garlean populace as Varis' murderer in the lore of the actual game) as "oh, she'll do" and just happens to come with baggage including being pregnant with the baby from a rebel leader and ex-lord of a province who just fought and beat back the Garleans to regain his country and is suddenly is A-OK with Garlean hegemony when he learns his baby momma is supported by the Scions for the Garlean throne.


Anyways, the Domans still support their monarch, who is still alive and isn't a tyrant, and his form of government is perfectly fine for their people. Just like how Thavnair has been ruled for ages by an immortal dragon and there's no problem with that either. He was willing to step away from ruling after the secret was revealed but the people are fine with him and wanted him to stay. The Dalmascan rebels we work with are trying to put Princess Ashe back on the throne. If there was a story or expansion in the game that revolved around a corrupt and evil democracy with a princess of a fallen house supported by the people in the hiding, the WoL would probably help the princess restore the monarchy, and that would be perfectly fine and be a good story.

But I guess mentioning Doma, Thavnair, and Dalmasca trying to keep or restore their monarchies with popular support doesn't suit forum goers who need to insist that the writers have a political agenda and that Alphinaud is knocking on doors and spreading the word of archon loaf, democracy, and the Sharlayan way.