I actually think we will go to Garlemald to try and save the empire ironically in the end. I think in this expac we will cause events that lead to another war of succession and if we don't step in and help a more moderate Garlean faction take power we will risk a highly dangerous faction taking power and total chaos and war across what remains of their empire. Option B would be worse cause could you think of more fertile ground for the Ascians to find desperate people to manipulate than in a land ripped apart by civil war involving Magiteck? Some Garlean territories would have been Garlean for 50 years. Those ones probably wouldn't have much of a sense of independence the way Doma and Ala Mhigo has.