Ran'jit's strength makes no sense

[Donnicton]

Oh my no, I don't at all share the opinion that if you Fordola/Yotsuyu in minor underbaddies who do nothing but commit petty acts of one-dimensional evil throughout the expansion to drive the good guys' motivation and then force-feed us some cutscenes near the end about how their horrible past drove their horrible actions up to this point, it does enough to salvage them as a character, much less a sympathetic villain.

To make him work in a manner that makes the player care about him you'd have to rewrite the entire character, you'd have to make him more interesting than irritating the player with some Diet Zenos scripted losses and a couple of Echo drops. He'd need to be more involved with the story from the outset - he needs a proper introduction, a proper arc and a proper execution(so to speak). He doesn't need to be written as well as a second Emet-Selch, but he at least needs to be as interesting as the beast tribes. As Ysayle. Even Edda. God, for Scholars even the Tonberries became quite interesting. And I'm not really confident that the kind of rewriting that would be needed to make him to work just to force some kind of Bizarro-Thancred wouldn't also come at the detriment to the rest of the story, considering how well the rest of the story works without him and how unaffected it is with him.

Sometimes a Grynewaht is just a Grynewaht, and his role in the story I think would not have seen any sort of great vacuum having instead been filled by that kind of character - some annoying little flunkie gofer sycophant of a petty and childish villain like Vauthry, who generally just irritates you for a while and then he's gone and you're glad he's gone - like the nameless captain who was with Ran'jit in the greatwoods.