Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
... in the last few years only Ala Mhigo tried to take over Gridania. (And some even longer time ago we had the Uldah situation)...
That war everybody loves to bring up when condemning Ala Mhigo, the Summer War, happened a century ago. Also it should be noted that the Gridanians have forgiven the Ala Mhigans for it.

The War of the Sisters between Ul'dah and Sil'dih was four centuries ago. Ul'dah did commit at least one atrocity during the war - they used Traders' Spurn to turn the Sil'dihns into zombies. You can probably tell how that ended. The Ul'dahns didn't record it that way - history is written by the winners, after all - but... again, it was four centuries ago, and we have no records of contemporary Ul'dahns condoning such actions, plutocrats or not.

On the subject of how we get to Garlemald (if that is what ends up happening), while I agree that having us go in as a POW, break out, and join a rebellion would be cool, from a gameplay perspective I doubt it'd happen. Too much would be inaccessible if they did it that way, unless the "Garlean Rebellion" (for want of a better term) has access to a mini-aetheryte they can install in their base and Garlemald just happens to have aetherytes its citizens can't use in its cities. I'd say there's the matter of us being an (in)famous killer to the Garleans as well, but given the crown prince of the Empire seemingly had no idea who we were when first we met perhaps most Garleans don't actually know who we are? Great opportunity for drama, though.

I currently compare the Empire's technology to that of the Thirstquencher Empire from Brave Fencer Musashi, cybernetics notwithstanding.