How would you improve Dawntrail's writing?

[Xrono_Amber]

Hmmmm....

I would have started with last Endwalker's patch. I think it would be more fun to just stumble on foreign princess during her unofficial visit to Sharlayan. Like, she arrived to personally annoy her brother Koana, who is there to grab some new plans to make another advancement to his homeland. Essentially, keeping him the scholarly-type, while making Wuk more carefree and eager to get into some troubles. I would remove her initial desire to get the throne and ask for our help in getting it. Dawntrail should start as a sort of summer vacation. We met with them both and Wuk personally invites us to her homeland because she really liked us. No deeper meaning.

Most of Dawntrail expansion should be focused on us learning more about Tural and it's inhabitants. So, yeah, sort of ARR 2.0 without us needing to carry around our title of Saviour of Universe and many other regals. More focus on Scions and their thoughts about the new continent and the life in general. More focus on actually some new and interesting cultures and not "bland traders", "bland farmers" and "bland crafters". I think in generally Tural lacks the....mmm....edge. Pretty much everything is too sterile, friendly and pure for nation that was barely united. Let us see some grim traces of unification. Of tension between different peoples.

Later down the line, the question of new king should come into question. I propose the idea of having just 3 contestants, with Wuk supporting Koana from the get-go. Zoraal Ja should have desire for more isolationism and self-reliance, attemt to mend a single nation with single culture under single ruler. Koana can essentially keep his motivations unchanged, but make him a bit more awkward with actual human interaction, Sort of the idea of great bureaucrat who prefers to stay in the shadows, while his dear sister, Wuk, is the one who explains Koana's ideas to people and makes his aims resulting in more down-to-earth approach. Bakool Ja Ja should purely represent Mamook and their aim to break away from newly made piece either by total separation or by getting preferential treatment. And since unification happened just recently, idea for allowing him to enter with such claim would be to have him be defeated and calm down separatism, since Mamook lack military strength to make their goals real....for now, at least.

As we go along with trials, Koana should realise that just having right ideas is not enough. He should be able to lead people. Inspire them. And he can't quite do it. While Wuk, who is not as bright in terms of ideas, is perfectly capable in uniting people with her carefree approach and desire to know more and help more. So by the end Koana and Wuk win, not just Koana. And that's pretty much it. Both Zoraal Ja and Bakool Ja Ja should grudgingly accept their defeat, but not be convinced in pointlessness of their goals.