Dawntrail's MSQ story is a disaster and waste of potential. [full spoilers]

[Lady_Silvermoon]

That section in the last zone I completely skipped. Once I saw what they were doing, how absolutely horrible they handled other parts of the story (paralyzed kid included), I refused to watch my WoL take part in any of that mess - especially with an absolute waste of a character that is Wuk Lamat (doesn't matter which VA voiced her, she was only going to make that entire section worse). I have never in this entire games history skipped an entire swath of story section, but I will not sit and watch my WoL delete an entire section of children or "child like" whatever stupid explanation they put in there.

I did want to mention this looks like it's starting a pattern with the horrible handling of that subject, child death. XIV has handled plenty of adult theming - prostitution, sacrifice, shoot even genocide and plenty more. However, killing children in the final days (the little elephant kids and the hyur one) made me sick to my stomach. I don't care if its at place, I don't care if it serves the story, I don't even care if it's handled well - you don't kill dogs or children that's the rule. There will never be an ok way to approach that subject in any video game imo - I know that's an opinion many people disagree with me on, but that's my opinion.

Yet, as bad as that subject is, imo, my goodness was that the one area this horrible story writing should have not gone with how awful they handled many other aspects of the story.

I had to take a 24 hour break from the story after deleting the kids. I only wanted two things from DT, no genocides and no colonizations. I decided I didn't care how boring it was, how lame it was, as long as I didn't wipe out any more entire peoples or do the most obvious "wrong thing" a person can do in an expansion about faux America, I'd be like A+, great job guys. Yay, power of friendship! Why did they decide to make genocide a zone? That is now forever a burnt husk, so whenever I am forced to go back there to gather or fish I can reminisce about the way I killed all those kids that time to demoralize their monarch. Then we come back like "Yeah, we killed your queen, destroyed your afterlife, and this kid you've never seen before is your new ruler, but don't worry, the lady who beat your queen to death with her axe is his guardian. Welcome to Tural."

But hey, at least we didn't kill their gods, so there is that...

[Lersayil]

But hey, at least we didn't kill their gods, so there is that...

Uuuhh... I think Sphene was referred to here and there as a "Goddess" or "God Queen"? Though I think those were explicitly external sources like the giants vision. I guess we can technically still cross it out on our bingo card?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Uuuhh... I think Sphene was referred to here and there as a "Goddess" or "God Queen"? Though I think those we're explicitly external sources like the giants vision. I guess we can technically still cross it out on our bingo card?

So we hit the unholy trifecta. Elidibus was right. We are Death.

[Colt47]

So we hit the unholy trifecta. Elidibus was right. We are Death.

Reaper Mains be like: "I've been waiting for this moment. The moment I can finally do my job title proud!"