Immersion

[BillyKaplan]

Self-interpretation IMO is no argument at all

And again, I say, if you want that level of Self-interpretation, go play a table-top game. There're limitations to how much freedom they can give you when ultimately you're playing a story someone else wrote. And ultimately, you get to decide what's canon for your own character. Within my chara's story, the DRK story didn't follow the canon questline up to 50, his complex wasn't about being the WoL and his fight with his inner darkness was at Providence Point by Hauchy's memorial with that playing a part. Didn't stop me from enjoying the canon version.. I know we're talking about Immersion but for me that sort of thing is a non-issue. I enjoy the game as presented before me and see how it ties in with itself; at the same time I decide how things happen for my character.

That said, if your character really was ok with everything that was happening in Ul'dah, I worry for them because that event at the end of ARR was the definition of trauma and certain amounts of ptsd are to be expected and I adore the DRK questline for going there. If your character is such a character that wouldn't care about those things, that wouldn't be fazed by them, maybe it's time to examine why you picked such a character in the first place for the role of the Warrior of Light, and remember the basic things the game expects out of your character - care; heroism; humanity and humility, to name a few examples. If your character doesn't fit these criteria I don't think you should expect in the first place for the game to cater to you. I realize this seemingly contradicts what I said earlier about the game prioritizing roleplay, but this is still a story based game someone else wrote and guides us through. We don't have such levels of freedom and imo it's wrong to expect them.