Quote Originally Posted by Durthane View Post
Gaius was not a good man, he was a monster along with anyone else involved in the occupation of Ala Mhigo. Any occupation force and it's commanders that do what they did to the civilian and especially the female populace forfeit any claim to honor or good intent. My only regret about killing the guy was I hadn't leveled Mnk so I could beat him to death the right way.

On the whole the story was decent, it was the mind numbing amount of filler that had me hating allot of it, especially Coerthas.
^This. Gaius is a megalomaniac only interested in conquest - in 1.0 he informed the player on Nael's plans to summon Dalamud simply because he wanted Eorzea intact for him to conquer. He slaughtered the Ala Mhigan Resistance in cold blood, shot the player's Path Companion and went to do the same to the player (luckily Yda deflected the shot with her bullet-proof knuckles).

Whether or not he was actually under the control of the Ascians at that stage was unclear though, given how little they were shown in 1.0. But what was plain was he was nothing more than a tyrant who only desired endless war and bloodshed and definitely has no sympathy from me due to his actions.