A certain upcoming colab event..

[Anonymoose]

Anonymoose, are you saying you doubt the Divine nature of Godbert Manderville and his Manderville bloodline in the game's official canon?

Funny enough, I was going to call it the Manderville Bubble until I thought better of it. Godbert just treads the line too well. He's officially a syndicate member, so we know he exists. And yet the Gold Saucer is never spoken of outside of the Saucer itself, story arcs related to it, or holiday events. It's like the Fight Club of Eorzea. Assuming Hildibrand Bubbles exist outside of my own way of making sense of the world, the edges of Godbert's are a little too clean to run a highlighter over.

As a crack-pot add-on to my headcanon, I like to assume that Godbert is actually a hoax perpetrated by Rowena because she's had that syndicate seat for years. It explains everything that his mastery of goldsmithing cannot (albeit with a tongue in cheek, at times), especially why he joined Lolorito in turning the Domans away when he's the type of person who becomes the Saint of Nymeia on holidays: Rowena wanted them at the Toll, where they could do more good than putting Ul'dah under further stress. The only problem there is that there are further jokes that Rowena (technically being an Ul'dahn at various points in her life) might claim Teledji's seat...