Lore Book Revelations

[FJerome]

Well, with a more straight up translation from Gamer Escape, it sounds like Zenos is going to be different as in he is such an extreme bastard that no one will actually like him. Villianous ass through and through. I guess that is true. Most villians we have dealt with have something of a logic or argument to their viewpoint that allows you to see how they might think their side of things is justified. Zenos on the other hands sounds like he will just be an evil sadist and all round terrible person. For FF14 that is actually a somewhat different villain to have.

Have . . . have they not noticed how many fangirls Charibert has? Zenos had better be amazingly ugly or this is going to backfire spectacularly.

I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping, from what got said at Fanfest, that we were going to roll-up and then the remaining Ala Mhigans who stuck it out would have gone "no, no actually we're . . . okayish? I mean, it's no picnic but it's better than another Theodoric."

Actually given what Theodoric was like maybe that's going to happen anyway.

[Theodric]

That's...disappointing if true. Especially when they made a big deal at Fan Fest about how the situation in Ala Mhigo is supposedly going to be 'morally grey' and will deal with the fact that not all Ala Mhigans may want to be liberated.

Unless, of course, Xenos is disliked by Garleans and Ala Mhigans alike working beneath him and that builds a bridge between them? It still doesn't do any FFXII reference justice though - neither Vayne nor Gabranth were completely evil.

[FJerome]

That's...disappointing if true. Especially when they made a big deal at Fan Fest about how the situation in Ala Mhigo is supposedly going to be 'morally grey' and will deal with the fact that not all Ala Mhigans may want to be liberated.

Unless, of course, Xenos is disliked by Garleans and Ala Mhigans alike working beneath him and that builds a bridge between them? It still doesn't do any FFXII reference justice though - neither Vayne nor Gabranth were completely evil.

If they're going to go full-on FF12 maybe it'll be the Larsa analogue who'll work with us?

[Theodric]

If they're going to go full-on FF12 maybe it'll be the Larsa analogue who'll work with us?

Regula would have worked well for that - but by the sounds of the interview and the fact that it states we're not going to learn too much about him it seems like he's going to die as I feared. I'm going to try and be optimistic but I fear they're set on making Garlemald a generic evil Empire after all and that the only 'good' Garleans will be defectors (ugh) or just killed off for drama and tragedy.

Alphinaud has effectively become 'Larsa' at this point too. So a 'Gabranth' or 'Drace' would be a better fit for a Garlean ally.

I just...don't think I can stomach an expansion based around Ala Mhigans being praised left, right and centre. I really hope there's more to all this and they're not planning on giving Ilberd the 'Ysayle' treatment and then not bothering to do anything with Garlemald to lessen it's perceived bad nature.

[FJerome]

I just...don't think I can stomach an expansion based around Ala Mhigans being praised left, right and centre. I really hope there's more to all this and they're not planning on giving Ilberd the 'Ysayle' treatment and then not bothering to do anything with Garlemald to lessen it's perceived bad nature.

(Man, should we spin this off into a 4.0 story speculation thread? It's not really about the Lore Book anymore)

I think from the way the story is going, the increased emphasis on the what the Beast Tribes are suffering, the fact that retaking Ala Mhigo would encourage rebellion in the rest of the Empire, I suspect that the good Garleans will continue to be defectors but they wouldn't be people who would have defected under Galvus. I doubt Varis has entirely purged the Empire of the people who supported his uncle and his more moderate view-point, there's probably quite a few officers who think the Empire's expansion itself is justified by the peace and order it brings but are now worried that's all in jeopardy because the wrong man's won the throne.