Midgardsormr

[kyuven]

I remind you this is the same guy that tried to broil and freeze you with his two little zombie dragons. He's also the guy who removed the blessing of light, allowing the Ascian to enter so he could grab Tsupimati, resulting in an untimely death.

So if not for his meddling, a lot of bad events would never have occurred. Oh, and he wants to raze Ishgard to the ground. I mean sure, they've got history with the dragons and probably deserve at least some comeuppance, but for every guilty there would be hundreds of innocent casualties. Remind me again why Midgardsormr is meant to be a good guy?

Another interpretation is that Midgardsormr realized that the blessing was causing a stalemate: The Ascians couldn't come near the item they wanted, and as such the Scions had no practical means of testing out their means of actually killing one.
While the dragon's interference caused a death on both sides, the result is knocking both factions out of their comfort zone. The Ascians are less likely to take rash action now that they know they can be out and out killed without direct intervention from Hydaelyn, and the Scions now know something about a certain item AND that their technique actually works, AND they know what the Ascians are after.
That one act may have more far reaching implications than we realize.

[Seiryuukishi]

Midgardsormr seems like that tough love kind of guy. It also occurs to me that being the King of Wyrms he has taken over guardianship of us for expansion as well due to being a dragon and thereby a new kind of protection for a new enemy. If only in a diplomatic sense. The only trouble being to me is he is doing it the old fashioned way. Like he is forcing us to make hard decisions and make our bodies/souls stronger for coming events. Sure he gives us some backwards notion of what might happen but even then it's like he keeps sitting there, "What have you wrought by your own hands, mortal?"

Don't even get me started on the inevitable shit storm coming when Ishgard opens up and there he is, talking to us. That'll go over real well I'm certain...