Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Raven2014]

There's no consistency issue there. The Scions just wanted Eorzea to stop relying on them to do everything so they (the Scions) could get back to doing their own thing and making their own decisions rather than being ordered about by the Grand Companies. It wasn't about "affecting politics" that persuaded them to "disband."

Then you need to take your own advise and look at what the "Scion used to do". Blatantly playing kingmaker sure as hell wasn't one of them.

- In 2.0, most of them were simply advisors. Especially Y'stola who had a very strong opinion against how Maelstrom treat the Sahargarin, but she never stepped out out bound.

- The whole reason why the original base of the Scion was located at the waking sand was to avoid the political influence of the syndicate.

- Afterward they relocated to Mor Dorha for the exact same reason.

- Alphinaugh's fail attempt to create the Scion's own GC was out of the desire of being operational independence.

- Throughout 3.0 - 6.0, the Scion helped solving problem never once we involved in the formation government. Isghard came up with their own, Ala Migho came up with thier own, Hien was already the king, Eulmore chose their own, even Garlemald is allowed to have their own internal debate.

- Never once the Scion stepped over the line and allowed themselves to make the judgement call.


But in DT, we do a double dipper and decide who deserved to rule and who doesn't, then execute it. I'm pretty sure it's that very same scene that you're citing in your argument, Thranced said the Scion will go back and against observe silently from the shadow. Excuse my French but "from the shadow" my arse, our foray in DT is anything but that. Not only we were straight up playing king maker, we did it from pretty much front and center. Remember that even before DT was released, the story premise already rub people the wrong way. Some already asked the question "why do we agree in participating in a rite of successor?" because that just how much out of character for the Scion was. And believe it or not, I actually defended the story back then. I told people that the invitation is probably just an excuse to start the story, there would probably some twist and turn that'll take the story in a different direction. And obviously I was wrong, not only they didn't change the direction, they're double down on it and the Scion basically became a paradogy of the CIA.


Is THAT consistency for you? 'Cause it's sure as heck doesn't look that way to me.

I swear, we've now reached the point of literally making things up just to find excuses to trash the dev team. Seriously...

I swear I didn't have to do it because they already give me more reason that I ever need to believe they're bad writers. This is just one of the MANY instance where this writing team demonstrate they either have a very bad attention to detail or simply writing in the wrong medium. To me it's very obvious whoever wrote this are more used to screenplay where each scenes tend to be more compartmentalized and the focus is on the drama and emotional impact rather than the end to end congruence. That doesn't tend to work in a contemporary story because unlike playwright, this medium actually needs consistency.