Can you please retire Gerolt?

[Liale]

I saw in the special site that one AGAIN Gerolt will be involved with the relic weapons. I am really tired of him and his kettles. There have to be other smiths that could fix the relics that wouldn't require some weird reason for him to be in bosja. Honestly the eureka weapons were not even legendary feeling because it was just junk he hammered together from mats we found. At least arr relics were ancient weapons of past heros and heavensward relics were living beings we helped create. But enough is enough, surely by now you should have let him pay off his debt or have learned his lesson or something. But no, yet again we get an endless amount of kettle references. It's too late for this expansion but maybe next one we could be spared Gerolt and get someone new and exciting rather than dull, drunk and cranky.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I saw in the special site that one AGAIN Gerolt will be involved with the relic weapons. I am really tired of him and his kettles. There have to be other smiths that could fix the relics that wouldn't require some weird reason for him to be in bosja. Honestly the eureka weapons were not even legendary feeling because it was just junk he hammered together from mats we found. At least arr relics were ancient weapons of past heros and heavensward relics were living beings we helped create. But enough is enough, surely by now you should have let him pay off his debt or have learned his lesson or something. But no, yet again we get an endless amount of kettle references. It's too late for this expansion but maybe next one we could be spared Gerolt and get someone new and exciting rather than dull, drunk and cranky.

For better or worse, he is the best Smith in the land. No one else can compare.

[Lauront]

For better or worse, he is the best Smith in the land. No one else can compare.

We'll use Eden to create someone better then. :>

[Liale]

For better or worse, he is the best Smith in the land. No one else can compare.

We can't actually be sure of that though since eorzia has been cut off from the, presumably since clouds cover a third of the map, other two continents for quite a while. In fact we didn't even see any of Thavnir or Nagxia. We have no idea what is in the Garlean Empire or Ilsabard. There could very well be smiths just as equally talented in other parts of the world. Gerolt is just the best in Eorzia. Untill we go to all the places on the map you can't say he is the absolute best.

[gman1311]

I mean, who cares? I just want my sparkly weapon.

[linay]

I just want him to be free from Rowena. Maybe let Khloe grow up and have her be his apprentice. Since she likes stories, then she might like to know stories of weapons.

[Raven2014]

Rowena will never let him go. Even if we find someone with superior skills she would just keep him while trying to acquire the other guy... >.>

I just want him to be free from Rowena. Maybe let Khloe grow up and have her be his apprentice. Since she likes stories, then she might like to know stories of weapons.

If you two paid attention to the lore behind Rowena and Gerolt you would realize it's the other way around. It's as much Rowena is keeping him on the hook as Gerolt giving her reason to do so on purpose despite what he said.

They were husband and wife, and Gerolt loved Rowena dearly. But she's obsessed with ambition and was about to get herself killed. Gerolt decided to step in and did certain thing - the short version is he bankrupt Rowena but at the same time saved her life. This made them divorce, and Rowena set out to rebuild her fortune/ambition, it might have started out she got him on the hook to pay back what he made her lose but this is just Gerolt's excuse to stay by Rowena and support her dream while keeping an eyes on her. He still loved her despite no longer being her husband. Remember Gerolt had paid off his debt several times, and each time he always did something dumb to be indebt to her again. Do you think he's that stupid? And someone as smart Rowena probably realize his intention long ago and just play along.

[linay]

If you two paid attention to the lore behind Rowena and Gerolt you would realize it's the other way around. It's as much Rowena is keeping him on the hook as Gerolt giving her reason to do so on purpose despite what he said.

They were husband and wife, and Gerolt loved Rowena dearly. But she's obsessed with ambition and was about to get herself killed. Gerolt decided to step in and did certain thing - the short version is he bankrupt Rowena but at the same time saved her life. This made them divorce, and Rowena set out to rebuild her fortune/ambition, it might have started out she got him on the hook to pay back what he made her lose but this is just Gerolt's excuse to stay by Rowena and support her dream while keeping an eyes on her. He still loved her despite no longer being her husband. Remember Gerolt had paid off his debt several times, and each time he always did something dumb to be indebt to her again. Do you think he's that stupid? And someone as smart Rowena probably realize his intention long ago and just play along.

That's...even worse! lol

They should at least reconcile. And I still like my Khole idea.

[MrThinker]

If you two paid attention to the lore behind Rowena and Gerolt you would realize it's the other way around. It's as much Rowena is keeping him on the hook as Gerolt giving her reason to do so on purpose despite what he said.

They were husband and wife, and Gerolt loved Rowena dearly. But she's obsessed with ambition and was about to get herself killed. Gerolt decided to step in and did certain thing - the short version is he bankrupt Rowena but at the same time saved her life. This made them divorce, and Rowena set out to rebuild her fortune/ambition, it might have started out she got him on the hook to pay back what he made her lose but this is just Gerolt's excuse to stay by Rowena and support her dream while keeping an eyes on her. He still loved her despite no longer being her husband. Remember Gerolt had paid off his debt several times, and each time he always did something dumb to be indebt to her again. Do you think he's that stupid? And someone as smart Rowena probably realize his intention long ago and just play along.

Actually, from what I remember, it is a bit different from that. Yes, they were married, yes Gerolt did something to take all of Rowena's money to essentially save her life.

The reason Rowena was being targeted by assailants wasn't because she was too ambitious, but because she absconded with a bunch of loan money to go after Gerolt after he was kicked out of Ul'dah due to the machinations of his old master. Though they lived together for a while, Gerolt soon realized the truth, and then behind her back, ran off with the money to pay back the debtors before disappearing. Rowena then became a self-made women and began to search for Gerolt (whether for revenge or for love I don't know) By the time she found him again, he had become a a broken man bereft of love and zest for his art, a drunkard selling kettles in Hyrstmill, and she paid off HIS debt to try and inspire him to the passion he once held and that he shows time to time in the relic quests.

[Theodric]

There's definitely some characters that I'd like to see retired at this point. Enduring yet another liberation plot is going to be rather stale, too...though hopefully with Matsuno in charge we'll get some shades of FF12 and the narrative will shift from destroying/breaking apart Garlemald towards seeking to save it and forge peace.