Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
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Exactly this. It's not that I think Lahabrea is going to be my best friend (though he totally is in my heart) and everything is going to be sunshine and rainbows, it's just that, even as far back as FFIII - you could even argue it in FFI, since awareness of being stuck in a perpetual time loop would probably mess me up rather badly as well - darkness wasn't evil for evil's sake. There's no reason to expect the Ascians to be. Everything that is there has hinted that there's more to the story we don't know, SE releasing only the tiniest carrot every patch so they keep people like us interested and talking.