Quote Originally Posted by Mieck View Post
So, there's a few questions that can be raised around the Varis / Alliance leaders in a Garlean tent scene. The seats bear the Garlean flag embossed in the backs and ivory standards by the entrance.



Is it the prelude to the battle? Invitation extended? These are my terms of your surrender, reject them and we will crush you sort of thing?
Have the alliance faught the Empire to a standstill?


I offer no side here, but these are the things I thought about during that sequence.
The leaders and Varis are likely in the Garlean Consulate in Kugane so I have a feeling Varis is fed up with how his country is going down the drain because of who is actually running his country, and he spills some secrets to the Eorzean Alliance in exchange for help to oust the puppetmaster (PUP confirmed in a future xpac!! lol) The Consulate is likely the safest place for a meeting like that. I know someone on reddit waaaay back during 4.0/4.1 found that the stairs leading up to the Garlean Consulate were padded for use - if you go to where it is and swing your camera around, your camera bumos up against and moves up onto the stairs as opposed to, say, the Thavnair Consulate's stairway where your camera moves through the stairs (no padding.)