Thread: Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

@Nalien: It's mentioned somewhere - in quest text, I believe - that the Emperor is specifically pursuing the Archbishop in an attempt to put a stop to his plans. It's likely that the Garleans already intended to head to Azyz Lla though and they became distracted once there...or simply decided to allow the Warrior of Light to deal with the Archbishop (just like they allowed the WoL to retrieve the key and remove the barrier barring entry to Azyz Lla).

It's never really explained how he knows such things though - especially since the Archbishop's betrayal/plan was known only to a select few. My theory back in 3.0 was that Lucia was feeding the Emperor information...though as it turns out she really is just a defector with a crush on Aymeric. Alas. I expected more of her, but I believe she's popular around these parts so I'll avoid ranting. She seemed to brush off her sister's death fairly easily though...which is disappointing. Especially if she was created for the sake of 'fan-service' to let a little bit of Livia live on.

Though they changed Estinien's model to be more 'pretty' to fit the sudden shift from 'gritty elves' to 'pretty elves' that Ishgard's story began to take so it's possible that Lucia was originally meant to be a darker character? Just pure speculation though!