"Who...what are you?"

[Belhi]

Well, I really don't know how Ellice reacted as I don't identify at all to the WoL... But I think she would have stopped working for Hydaelyn almost instantly. Ellice is a really sensible character, and should she understand That she hurt somebody, or let her feelings and reasoning destroy another person's life, not even knowing if what she did was truly right... Because that's how I felt when I killed Thordan, I wasn't sure we did something good... And that's why I tried so much to understand Thordan.

And on Hydaelyn bleeding for primals... Well, yes. But then again, Thordan doesn't give a damn about Hydaelyn and Zodiark, he wants to protect Ishgard.

Aymeric also doesn't sound to me as a calm guy... He was angry at Thordan for personal reasons and Thordan was angry at him for personal reasons... It was stupid to let him go there alone.

Hydaelyn isn't just a floaty crystal. It is all made one. An embodiment of the life of the world. Simply put, Primals suck the world of its very life force. This is why Alexander would have made the Hinterlands barren within months and why we kill Primals. Their very existence kills the world around them slowly and the stronger they are the more they consume.

Regardless of Thordan's intentions, which I felt were short sighted, his method would have come at a terrible price. This is assuming he just wiped out the Garleans and the dragons (and frankly not all dragons deserve to be killed off any more than the Ishgardians do). Add to that, his dialog in the fight seemed to imply he didn't plan to just stop with Ishgard but 'bring order to the world' as a new god king.

Aymeric went along cause he hoped he could make his father see reason and bring change to Ishgard rather than enforcing a lie. The very basis for Ishgard's social structure, which in turn has lead to serious social equality and abuses of lower classes, was a lie. He was, quite rightly, convinced that with Nidhogg gone it was only a matter of time before the lower classes began to get restless of the oppression of the high houses.

Thordan was in a position of authority with the influence to transition Ishgard into a less socially imbalanced society and therefore avoid potential civil unrest. Lets be clear. We had already removed Nidhogg when Thordan left. He didn't need the power of a primal to defeat that dragon anymore. The Horde had had its head cut off.