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

[ArcturusWhisper]

You're not wrong, but you know damn well the "cultural consultants" wouldn't have allowed that because "muh colonialism". Which is why I think all of Tulilloyal seems so saccharine. There's very little conflict in such a "diverse" empire. Guess what, that rarely happens in real life, an even narratively in XIV, it doesn't happen. Look at all the conflict in Eorzea, and they have a common enemy to rally against. What's funny is Tulilloyal would've been better served with a little more realism.

Initially, Gulool Ja Ja should've conquered the continent from a combination of talk-no-jutsu and pure military force. Now that the Head of Reason is out of commission (he should've actually just been sleeping a lot, that would've been more subversive than him being dead. I called it from the moment I saw him), and Gulool Ja Ja advanced age, old inter-tribal strifes and differences are bubbling back up. He's now having a hard time keeping a lid on everything. Gulool Ja Ja sees the writing on the wall and uses that as the impetus for the rite of succession; trying to pass on the throne to the new age who could keep all the disparate groups together. But of course, we can't have strife in our Disney story.

I literally cannot believe they wrote that Gulool Ja Ja has really united a continent with friendship and positive vibes alone. I was convinced that there's a "true history" that Wuk Lamat just didn't know. Then it turns out that yeah, he really did unite a continent by singing Kumbaya? WTF.

There's idealism, and then there's this. HW has a pretty idealistic story, where Aymeric basically has a pretty smooth ride with overhauling a thousand-year religious regime and also making peace with the dragons. But we didn't achieve it by only TALKING or being inspiring or whatnot! Vanquishing Thordan and Nidhogg is an extremely critical part in achieving this. The Tural story is just literally made for four-year-olds or something.