Fordola

[Savagelf]

do I smell a redemption story in the works

[ErryK]

I had hoped she would have been written out of the story entirely, I really don't like her backstory.

[Ghastly]

I had hoped she would have been written out of the story entirely, I really don't like her backstory.

Me too I don't like her at all. She doesn't deserve any sympathy.

[Evumeimei]

Me too I don't like her at all. She doesn't deserve any sympathy.

I didn't like her either tbh. I do believe we should pity her a bit, but she was so unforgiving in most of her actions that I'm not sympathetic towards her. In some ways I believe she chose the cowardly route in deciding to become Zenos' lapdog.

She seems stubborn and prideful. I doubt changing her views will be easy. Even if she has a change of heart, she should serve prison time for everything she has done.

[Fjaere]

I really hated like her in the msq and hope she dies in her dirty, lonely prison cell

[Lazaruz]

I wouldnt be opposed to getting some redemption for Fordola, or atleast SE better trying to establish that her enlisting with Garlemald was not just "because she's evil", but more "What choice did she have?"

But lets not kid ourselves. The girl has willingly aided in the opression of her own country, and has god knows how much blood on her hands

And once the Resistance learns she's the one who ordered the cannon at Castrum Abania to fire on Specula Imperatoris, I cant imagine they're gonna go easy on her, since she's killed, or attempted to kill, her own countrymen, and willingly

[Lan_Mantear]

And once the Resistance learns she's the one who ordered the cannon at Castrum Abania to fire on Specula Imperatoris, I cant imagine they're gonna go easy on her, since she's killed, or attempted to kill, her own countrymen, and willingly

She already admitted to Lyse, that she was the one who gave the order.

I can see Fordola getting a redemption story. Her motivations were to 'free' her people by forcibly paving the way for the Ala Mhigans to be wholly part of the empire and not just a controlled province, and she used any means necessary to accomplish her goal. Including sacrificing her conscience. It's a fairly common anti-hero plot line.

[Lazaruz]

Eorzean oppressors?

Lol, even if Eorzea were keen to that, it not only took the combined might of all 4 city states, but another country and several warrior tribes to pull off what they did. Eorzea couldn't "oppress" much of anything on its own, much less occupy Ala Mihgo. After all, it took 20 years for them to even consider trying to fight back and retake their own eastern border.

Eorzean opressors might be a wrong way of putting it, given the actual strenght of the alliance, and such. But I do feel like there's some merit in atleast thinking that quite a few people are in all likelyhood not gonna be happy about Eorzea overthrowing the established order within Ala Mhigo, especially since people like Fordola might not have known much else, kinda like Hien's short line about not having been born before Doma was occupied, and because of that he has never known a free Doma.

Also lets not forget that Eorzea is/was for all intents and purposes the agressor when it comes to the recent conflicts in Ala Mhigo. We werent retaliating because of imperial actions, or something like that. We declared war upon a (arguably 2) garlean province, as a means of, among other things, ensuring that Shinryu and Omega didnt end up in the empire's hands, plus since "The Griffin"s scheeme had in all likelyhood already doomed us into Garlemald thinking we'd declared war (so. "Damned if we do, damned if we dont")

She already admitted to Lyse, that she was the one who gave the order.

Ah, guess I must've forgot that part. Thanks for the reminder! ^^

[TheCount]

do I smell a redemption story in the works

I don't see how she could be redeemed when she made it a point to have herself and her group be as brutal as possible to her own people because of some very lacking reasons.

[Theodric]

It's almost as if these things are more nuanced than black and white scenarios.