Why should any of us root for Wuk Lamat?

[Limecat]

They should have gathering leves in the coastal zones where you go after spices and gold, and have to avoid being seen by NPCs that'll attack you with spears and bows to knock you out of gathering mode.

[AnimaAnimus]

Leveilleur and Co. said we should. Therefore we shall. Because we have no free will, we are the puppet, the scions are the puppeteer.

[SomeGuy22]

There's as much of a hook as there was for Shadowbringers. Everything was going on with the Empire there and then suddenly we have to go to this place where our friends got yoinked to? We know the reason now, but we had no clue in the leadup and I remember a lot of complaints about how sudden it was.

Ehh disagree pretty hard on that. While also sudden (it had longer buildup than DT's, but still quite sudden), ShB's hook was dire as hell for the story at that point. Your close allies keeling over outta the blue at such a critical point in the story is both a way more intriguing and a way more personal justification for a new expansion than "hey, the fellas on the other side of the ocean might attack Eorzea if we don't see what's popping over there? Maybe? But nvm that, adventure!"

When I was getting to ShB I wanted to see what happened to the Scions, wanted to know why our offensive was getting screwed over by a dude in a robe, and what would Garlemald do with such an unexpected advantage being given to them in a silver platter. For DT I don't have that kinda emotional investment, y'know?

[Lieri]

Once we got into Dawntrail they better do a proper intro to it all. Because the one at the end of Endwalker isnt enough. The story about Golbez and Zero can be considered short and yet when it started it had more depth than Wuk Lamat who's supossed to be the focus for an entire expansion. They have to be careful with this. With Golbez at least some of older FF fans have familiarity about him so they can kinda rely on nostalgia too. Wuk Lamat is a complete stranger to us all and need an indept back story.

[Oizen]

Except we're not. Unless both Erenville and Wuk are lying to us, it is expected and encouraged to seek foreign allies for the succession ritual.

Sounds like that throwaway line was added cause someone on the writing side realized what I said.

[Supersnow845]

What’s annoying about this whole succession crisis is it’s only going to go one of three ways with the fourth way that I want it to go being beyond square

1) we will rigidly stick to wuk lamat because the WOL gets no agency
2) Wuk will informally drop out early and we end up supporting the one Wuk throws in behind
3) something with solution 9/the city of gold makes the crisis irrelevant and they all end up allied

I’d rather us go to tural meet the other 2 non warmonger candidates and then actually get to throw our support behind the one we want

The hook for DT is so short and meaningless they have given us zero reason why we shouldn’t support koana and right now knowing what I know I’d much rather support koana over Wuk

[Altera]

Not sure how I feel about this character yet. Atm shes the most annoying one of all NPCs added since 1.0 imo. The voice is just really grating in my ears sadly in the english version. :/
I dont see her being worthy as a leader as things are atm.

[Hallarem]

At least she's not Lyse, thats enough for me.

[Bonoki]

I just realized that we traveled to Kugane, Sharlayan, and Dawntrail by boat. I wonder if we'll also reach Meracydia by scheduling a boat.

[Fawkes]

What’s annoying about this whole succession crisis is it’s only going to go one of three ways with the fourth way that I want it to go being beyond square

1) we will rigidly stick to wuk lamat because the WOL gets no agency
2) Wuk will informally drop out early and we end up supporting the one Wuk throws in behind
3) something with solution 9/the city of gold makes the crisis irrelevant and they all end up allied

I’d rather us go to tural meet the other 2 non warmonger candidates and then actually get to throw our support behind the one we want

The hook for DT is so short and meaningless they have given us zero reason why we shouldn’t support koana and right now knowing what I know I’d much rather support koana over Wuk

Those three ways are probably all going to happen. We're going to spend time in her corner helping her beef up for the contest, she'll realize on her own that she's not the best choice, and the actual plot that shows up later will unite most of the candidates aside from probably the mean two-headed guy.

I assume they have plans for some of the characters beyond this one part of the plotline so if they let you crown Koana and me pick Wuk Lamat then your Wuk and my Green G'raha would have to be sidelined to the shadow realm or the continuity would start to spiral out of control from 7.1 and beyond.