Thread: Estinien in 3.0

Originally Posted by Rikkustrife

I have not done coil, which is not part of the MSQ anyways, but I thought Nael was dead and the one we fight is an aether version.

I mentioned Moenbryda, and neither her nor Nanamo are removed from the story, their deaths serve a purpose in the storyline, and they will still be part of it even if not in it, though Moenbryda may come back.
Gaius' death was not to remove him from the story, he is the guy we stop from enslaving Eorzea.

So none of the death's were for the sake of removing them, they all serve a purpose in the story. Even Wilred's, and the sylph's death after the storyline Titan fight had purpose.

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Being killed off, no matter how important to the storyline it is, still serves the purpose of removing a character from the storyline through death. It is only how the story treats their death that makes it important or not.

Not to mention if a character is killed off, there is a limit on how much the story will go back to a character's death before it becomes "beating a Dead Horse" issue so while certain Deaths may hold importance to future storyline it only remains important to that specific part of the storyline. After that point in the story, the character is slowly moved out of the story since it would become "beating a dead horse" issue if the story constantly reminds the player "this NPC is dead" every X.X storyline.