Revelations from NA Fan Fest (July 2023)

[Iscah]

This all so much though at this point i kinda dont want to hear the words Garlean or Garlemald ever again.. Im so completely tired of them on all fronts.

To be fair, I think we will – and story-wise need to – hear more of Garlemald and the Garleans as they adapt to their new situation and hopefully recover and come to be on better terms with the other nations.

What we don't need is more imperialistic "Garlean legion as enemy force" Garleans, besides possibly furthering/resolving the plot that seems incomplete following Save the Queen. But that's on the other side of the world from where we're going this time, unless they've planned some elaborate new MSQ integration with the new Gabranthian Empire invading Tural from the west or something... but really, even if they were going to pull something like that, it would be better saved for an expansion or two down the track, and a different location. Perhaps it will be when we finally see more of Ilsabard. I don't think we can really go exploring there without coming up against Gabranth's remaining forces somewhere along the line.

But for Dawntrail, in this new and unfamiliar setting, give us a new and entirely different type of antagonist please – even if the writers feel they need a new "evil empire" to crop up later.