To be honest, I find it really refreshing that a country so mired in rigid, stagnate tradition, classism and a (false) religion is being changed by people who don't fit into the close minded society of Ishgard as a whole: Bastards and foreigners, orphans and heretics.

Aymeric, Hilda, Haurchefant, Ysayle, Estinen, Lucia. All of these people, these NPCs who dearly want to see Ishgard's people prosper, freely and honestly, and in peace. For being born as they were or having the pasts/beliefs they have, many reject them, but the love they have for their country gives them strength to rise above those sentiments, and for some of them, make the ultimate sacrifice.