Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Funny enough, I'm not entirely convinced Hydaelyn is the benevolent goddess she's made out to be for similar reasons. Primarily because she's, you know, a goddess, and we're made to protect and serve her. While it's far from the same genre, the Souls games (and Bloodborne) touch these kinds of things. Paraphrasing BB's Plain Doll:

"Eorzeans have told me about Hydaelyn. About the Goddess, and Her love. But... does the Goddess love Her creations? Of course, they do love Hydaelyn. Isn't that how She's made them?"
if i know gods and goddesses, they always have ulterior motives. most likely we are just her self defense mechanism though...the overpowered kind.

Even Thordan tells you that by tearing down the Church you're offering Ishgard only "virtuous suffering" and "bitter truth," but (DS II's Aldia) "no matter how tender, how exquisite, a lie will remain a lie."
aldia has the right of it. the truth stings because it is supposed to. Ishgard lived a lie out of necessity to stave off Nidhogg's rage, and though the dreadwyrm is back, the necessity died with the archbishop and the heaven's ward.

Chaos is freedom - the freedom to do as we wish, unbound to the yoke of Ishgard, or Eorzea, or even Hydaelyn herself. The quest log for DRK even says so. Chaos is considered inherently evil, but as important component of freedom... is it really?
i see this slightly differently. chaos and lawfullness are not similar to good and evil, though they share the same tendencies. someone who is evil can bring chaos, and someone who is good can be lawful. the ascians are a perfect example of this trait: on one hand they seek to destabilize hydaelyn to bring about the rejoining, but at the same time they seek to restore the balance with their own champion. same goes for us, who value the freedom adventurers have, but wish the world not to fall to the ascian's chaos.

Not that XIV is the sort of game to touch on such vagaries of morality...
yeah, it definitely doesn't. just sunshine and moogles here kupo.