Narrative Exploration: A Garlemald Expansion

[Deo14]

The hilarious thing is, everyone said the exact same thing about the Ascians until Shadowbringers came around, and the writers have since admitted that they came up with the idea to retcon Garlemald into being an Ascian tool, by creating Emet-Selch and retconning Solus as one of his identities. Seriously, remember what the Ascians did before Emet-Selch's sudden introduction into the plot. Do you remember anything? Exactly.

You can tell which people on these forums joined the game very late and/or have no capacity for narrative analysis.

So you propose that writers start throwing random elements into story and hope that Ishikawa will manage to salvage it once again ? Yes, it was good call to direct ShB story that way even though it caused serious retcons, but that doesn't mean they should rely on it. If they have some high caliber story involving empire then so be it, but if not, stop investing into garlemald which has nothing more to offer.