Alphinaud

[Frizze]

What I would like to avoid is getting a "NPC from there" leading 5.0 MSQ (namely what we got with Lyse). It was ok for Stormblood, but I don't want for instance Cid as a main MSQ buddy for 5.0 if we go to Garlemald for instance. I prefer the outcast/lonely feeling we had in Heavensward. But it's just a matter of taste I guess

Right now(pre-patch) if we did get a garlean "escort" it would seem likely to be Cid, Nero or Shadowhunter. None of whom are exactly "welcome" in their native land. So outcast can still easily apply. I didnt really get that much of a lonely feel from HW personally. We spent most of the expansion with Estinien and/or Ysayle(plus Alphy).

[Mansion]

Right now(pre-patch) if we did get a garlean "escort" it would seem likely to be Cid, Nero or Shadowhunter. None of whom are exactly "welcome" in their native land. So outcast can still easily apply. I didnt really get that much of a lonely feel from HW personally. We spent most of the expansion with Estinien and/or Ysayle(plus Alphy).

It's more about the "I remember how it used to be" that I dread. I think it's overall lazy writing of past and present of an area/story. What I liked with Ishgard was the constant teasing of the unreachable city before HW, and once we got there we discovered its whole reality at once. How uneven, unfair, dark and elegant it was. And it wasn't told through some prism, it felt real and direct. I don't know if I make sense.

While Gyr Abania focused a bit too much on the one side of the story, which is the resistance and the war, and it brushed off the first feeling of it. The whole narration through Lyse to Papalymo felt awkward too.