Betrayal and Wuk Lamat

[Bun_Vivant]

Wuk Lamat will eventually realize she's a poor fit for a country's leader, surrender her claim in favor of a more fitting candidate ...

Good point: "poor fit for a country's ruler" is a logical conclusion from "needs foreigners with no knowledge of or stake in the country to support her."

[TheMightyMollusk]

Good point: "poor fit for a country's ruler" is a logical conclusion from "needs foreigners with no knowledge of or stake in the country to support her."

I've seen other stories that justified hiring foreigners for succession fights. For example, in Fire Emblem Awakening, the clan leaders of Ferox hire foreign mercenaries because having the clan leaders fight it out themselves just leads to blood feuds that drag the nation into civil wars, while hiring the right foreigners shows they know how to assess their neighbors and recognize talent and strength outside of their own clans. Time will tell if Dawntrail does anything about it, or if we're just there as an adventure hook.

[MikkoAkure]

I've seen other stories that justified hiring foreigners for succession fights. For example, in Fire Emblem Awakening, the clan leaders of Ferox hire foreign mercenaries because having the clan leaders fight it out themselves just leads to blood feuds that drag the nation into civil wars, while hiring the right foreigners shows they know how to assess their neighbors and recognize talent and strength outside of their own clans. Time will tell if Dawntrail does anything about it, or if we're just there as an adventure hook.

It wouldn't be the first time our WoL has been hired out as a mercenary in a political struggle either.

Prince Hien used us to uproot the entire political status quo of a whole race of people just so he could have them as his army to reclaim his throne. Just like now, it was in our own interest to help him because doing so drew Garlean attention away from Ala Mhigo, which was arguably more personally important to us. And now we have a warmonger who wants to bring an army to our homeland while the three great continents are weak from multiple wars so we have an interest to at least check out to see what's going on.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Prince Hien used us to uproot the entire political status quo of a whole race of people just so he could have them as his army to reclaim his throne.

We went to the Far East in the first place to start a revolution and split the Empire's attention from Ala Mhigo, so it was more a case of mutual interests.