Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
-Ishgard (as you mentioned)
With Ishgard it wasn't even Scions as a whole, it was basically us accompanying and being connective tissue between Estinien and Ysayle as the two uncover the truth behind the war; and we do help the 'wish of common people' by killing Nidhogg the first time. The revolution happens as result of us revealing the truth and scions were just choosing to support people trying to fix the mistakes of the past, rather than those trying to capitalize off of them to keep eternal war going.

Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I know people who are already a bit shifty on what we did there since our influence was basically the combat-trial equivalent of election tampering, but us throwing in with a particular side, especially on request, would at least be within their society's accepted boundaries. Deciding to completely overturn the whole process because we've decided that Everyone Is Bad Actually? Yeah, that's probably a bad look.
Isn't there some lore revealed in Wanderer's Palace (Hard) that basically tells us that proving a good leader by winning by actually any means necessary is THE way, and if the way is by finding good allies it'd be just as valid as being the strongest? Especially since it seems, both 'sides' are requesting aid of the specific ex-scions as form of official hiring, rather than scions coming around and going "hey this guy seems good, I'll support em".