Thread: 3.4 speculation

To be fair, I see a lot of people say they're not impressed with Regula because he isn't like Gaius and Varis because he isn't like Solus but neither of them have been given much screen-time and even when they are the antagonists are typically forced to fail due to the silly plot armour surrounding the Warrior of Light, Cid and the Scions in general. Personally I think they haven't really decided which direction they're going in with Garlemald which is why things are left so vague. I'd like to see more cutscenes developing the antagonists for a change - and not just 'sneak peeks' either. We never encountered Drace directly in FFXII and yet she had an entire story arc to herself that took place in cut-scenes alone.

Originally Posted by Theodric

To be fair, I see a lot of people say they're not impressed with Regula because he isn't like Gaius.

Say what you will about regula but i think he might be a pretty good moral builder for his troops as he seemed to show respect for his legion and talk to his officers on a more equal level in azys lla and has shown to actually go in the frontlines with his men. Gaius being the more experienced general commanded from a back seat, only fighting when needed and nael was cruel and was like to kill his own men if it served his purposes. I do hope to see reula develop his own key identity seperate from the others before he gets killed off. Regula seems to want to prove himself equal to the latter generals but is obviously failing to make an impression.

Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

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I actually like Regula a lot. I think it's pretty great that he hasn't been killed and that we've fought him three times already. He has the makings of a solid long term antagonist or even potential ally depending upon where things go from here. I'm hoping he doesn't turn out to be a traitor, though - and that if they do go with the 'Kefka' route he ends up being corrupted for the added element of tragedy. Or even as a twist growing very powerful but remaining loyal to his homeland, people and leader.

Originally Posted by Theodric

Personally I think they haven't really decided which direction they're going in with Garlemald which is why things are left so vague.

When they do go into more depth with Garlemald (I don't think it's a question of if), I wonder if the more thorough look will include any information on how things were before the rise of the Empire in 1522 of the Sixth Astra Era. The "On Garlean Hierarchy Volume 1" found in The Gubal Library makes mention of their being "significant changes in the structure of Garlean society" afterward (not something I've thought about much, but it does remind me that the Garlemald exactly as we know it today is relatively young).

Makes me wonder if we'll ever learn how much of old Garlemald survived the transition into new Garlemald, and perhaps what its people think of it.