Estinien (spoilers)

[Allyrion]

Snip.

1. Aymeric was wrong. It is clear Nidhogg would not rest until all of Ishgard's descendants was turned into dragons or burned. That was the whole things we had to journey to figure out, that trying to make peace was completely futile. He really was just a mad dog at that point.


2. You're forgetting (or haven't reached) the point where we end the war. It's all good, but our company is not satisfied because of the truth we uncovered.

So,

Heck, if the story never went "Turns out I'm actually EVIL" with the Archbishop, we probably would've gone on our merry way wiping out hands clean of the whole war with Ishgard never really seen too negatively. Keep in mind, the Holy See still lied to its people and lied about the history of the world and was totally fine with that. But... I'm sure most of Ishgard wouldn't have cared if the Holy See revealed the whole "Oh no Thordan totally killed the dragon out of a lust for power", why? Because it's not like Ishgardians are forgiving people with forgiveness for dragons and heretics in their hearts.

That's just not true. It was clear that such a truth would shatter the tenets of their society.

Aymeric tries to force the Holy See to admits the sins of the past, before the Archbishop goes rogue. He does this after Nidhogg is put down too, which means they could've left it alone but he didn't.

Iceheart was able to get the heretics out of Ishgard on her own. Showing they can surprise their hatred.

Aymeric apologizes to Midgardsormr and speaks for Ishgard that they will move forward past the crimes of their ancestors, to make Ishgard a place for both man and dragon.

Let's not forget, they let us in on dragon back and then proceed to bow to Midgardsormr.


The ones complicit in the actions of the past were those that covered the truth, i.e. the Archbishop and his 12.
It's true Aymeric may not speak for all Ishgardians, but faced with the truth it can be inferred that there room for change.

Before the Archbishop showed his primal cards, we had already prepared a coup.

If none of the Ascian-primal mess happened, we were still clearly ready to break Aymeric out and (this is stated in the planning) dethrone the current Holy See so that Ishgard would see the truth of its past.


It's really important to understand that all of the planning and revolution happened after Nidhogg was already dead and before the Holy See went rogue.
So yea, there was no complacency in our company.