Feedback: Feeling disappointed by 6.55's narrative, and thus unsure about Dawntrail

[Ath192]

Yep, perfect example of the old saying: "Might makes right."

"Descriptively, it asserts that a society's view of right and wrong is determined by those in power, with a meaning similar to "History is written by the victors." That is, although all people have their personal ideas of the good, only those strong enough to overcome obstacles and enemies can put their ideas into effect, and spread their own standards to society at large."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_...e%20victors%22.

Agreed, I'm not huge on the morality of empires personally, they come and go, conquer, destroy and build, what doesn't feel fun for me is that we are at such an endstage in our power levels that we are Thanos with all infinity stones equipped and no time travel discovered.

TBH I don't know if you know the story of the Aztecs but essentially:

" Meanwhile, Cortes was planning to conquer the Aztec empire. He
started out toward their major city, Tenochtitlan (the-nock-TEE-tlan). It
was where Mexico City is today. Along the way, Cortes fought and
defeated the local natives. Some of these Indians were more hostile to
the Aztecs than to Cortes. They helped him in his attack on the Aztec
empire."

In this case we have a local native bringing in another outside power to seize the throne by force in this contest. What little they know is that because they have done this now they will be beholden to us and they will only think they are in power when in reality we will be. Not dissimilar to the Indians that helped Cortes take out their other local enemies, surely hoping they would get something out of it (they didn't). So if they wanted to avoid the look of colonialism, they kinda failed, and quite frankly, conquest happens everywhere, so that's not entirely the issue. To me the issue is that the WOL is involved its already GG for the other side.

There is literally nothing we can't murder by brute force that will prevent Wuk or whoever we bless with that throne. And then Alphinaud will teach them the right way to lead, probably.

It would've been a lot better if we simply got a native explorer looking for people daring enough to find a lost city or something and we left the government out of it.