Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
We have hardly seen much of Ishgard proper and you have to remember those bunkers on the route between the Observatory and Camp Dragonhead are specifically to house peasants during dragon attacks to keep them from being easy pray. If they are military structures then they exist solely to keep the dragons from slaughtering the non military targets.

I'm not say either side is in the right. I suspect both sides have long since been fighting a brutal and ruthless war. I don't however think the Dragons are simply misunderstood. I think there is a lot more to the war than has been presented for either side and the final quest in the DRG story only strengthens my suspicions of that, not just because of the story of the village but the actual conclusion and battle and how it ends.
I am not saying dragons are pure moral warriors vs the Evil blacker than black ishgard. I am saying any statement from Ishgard about Dragon atrocities are distinctly suspect. I mean who knows HOW long the Ascians have been directing the war? They could have started it for all we know. There is a distinct impression I get from the setup that early Ishgard was probably founded with the AID of the dragons and that's why Shiva was a Saint then. Even the Dragoon ending talks about returning things to the way they were.