Future leader of Apa Mhigo

[Frederick22]

Still with this? Varis sous Galvus is NOT gonna become our friend.

[Theodric]

Still with this? Varis sous Galvus is NOT gonna become our friend.

Stranger things have happened. He's likely to die in Azyz Lla but that doesn't mean whoever replaces him won't become our friend.

[Frederick22]

Stranger things have happened. He's likely to die in Azyz Lla but that doesn't mean whoever replaces him won't become our friend.

I totaly agreed that we may have a friendship with Nero, but no like him.

[Theodric]

It's possible that Nero is the figure who shows up in the scenes with Yda and Papalymo. I'm not really sure how I'd feel about that, though, unless he's intent on helping out his own people by allying with us. If he's just there because he has a 'change of heart' then it simply leads to the same problem we have with Cid and Lucia. His presence would make more sense if Regula or Ilberd seize control of Ala Mhigo and cause both Eorzeans and Garleans to suffer.

[LineageRazor]

The impression I get from Nero's character isn't that he has any intention of working against the Garleans, but is not particularly invested in working WITH them, either, except insofar as they help him achieve his own goals. He's been pretty much totally consumed by his desire to one-up Cid, and developing cool gadgets for the Garleans to oppose the cool gadgets made by Cid for the Alliance is no longer enough to satisfy him. So, now he's off hunting down new technology (such as the Crystal Tower) in the hopes of finding something that will prove, once and for all, that he's the better technologist of the two.

I can easily see him directly disobeying or even outright deserting the Garleans, if he thinks it will lead to his personal victory over Cid, but I don't see him as ever being more than a temporary ally as long as we're friends with Cid.

[Belhi]

Well his argument at CT was he couldn't exactly go home since he likely faced punishment for being an officer of Gaius after their failure at the end of 2.0, particularly since Gaius seemed to be acting on his own. I think Nero's primary concern is his own skin at this point.

However, having said that, Nero probably knows the inner workings of Garlean politics a lot better than we do and if he is working with us it could still be with Garlemald's interests at heart in the long term if he fells that the political shift put Garlemald's stability at danger. Being loyal to Garlemald doesn't necessarily mean being loyal to the current Emperor. That could be an in for us to get involved with Garlemald as a nation.