Ivalice: Raid & Reconciliation

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

meh, I'm not lookong fowarda to this, seeing as how I played FFT and can all but imagine what is going to happen with the "tale".

It's like with Cid, we have some reasonable folk, but they are also essentially divorced from being Garlean entirely.

You seriously don't see how this has already added nuance to Garlemald as a whole? Their first dictator openly encouraged subversive arts!

[Kallera]

You seriously don't see how this has already added nuance to Garlemald as a whole? Their first dictator openly encouraged subversive arts!

He is also openly dead.

I don't really know what to make of it, to be honest. I just don't expect much more from SE on them or any remaining antagonists.

I think the part that stuck with me was that Cid's explanation on the airship was kinda ...not well done? I felt like I was being told to be open minded...after doing something that likely would have me giving pause before being asked "so are going to help"? with of course, no chance to be anything but open minded on the spot.

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

He is also openly dead.

Think about the implications, though - Solus may be dead, but under his lengthy tenure as Emperor, he actively cultivated a sense of critical thinking, relative freedom of thought, and appreciation for the arts in his Empire's home population. That population didn't die with him, which means that the existence of Garleans loyal to (a certain ideal of) the Empire but also open-minded, sympathetic, and capable of meeting in the middle is practically a certainty. Isn't this exactly the sort of thing you and the other Garlean sympathizers wanted - nuance to Garlemald, for them and their population to more than just a generic Evil Empire?

[Kallera]

Think about the implications, though - Solus may be dead, but under his lengthy tenure as Emperor, he actively cultivated a sense of critical thinking, relative freedom of thought, and appreciation for the arts in his Empire's home population. That population didn't die with him, which means that the existence of Garleans loyal to (a certain ideal of) the Empire but also open-minded, sympathetic, and capable of meeting in the middle is practically a certainty. Isn't this exactly the sort of thing you and the other Garlean sympathizers wanted - nuance to Garlemald, for them and their population to more than just a generic Evil Empire?

fair point, I do want that.