Quote Originally Posted by FrightfulNight View Post
Part of why I want for them to wrap up this story so badly in 6.0 is so that we can finally move on to new antagonists after the season 1 storyline is done. I personally think they have done almost all there is to do with Garlemald and they are sadly no longer the more interesting and threatening antagonists and I saw them as back before SB with maybe the exception of Gabranth's group (who might or might not be an allegory for the Byzantines). That being said I do want them to wrap up this storyline in a fitting way and not something unsatisfying like off screen or like FF XV did.
I'm not sure what you mean by "wrap up" on Garlemald. Unless Fandaniel and Zenos nuclear annihilate all of Garlemald, its not going anywhere and will be there after they are gone. The fall of the Empire by ways of military conquest off screen does not perclude it's inclusion in the coming or subsequent expansions.

Just use other Final Fantasy's as evidence, the empires are never taken to the sword. The real villain rises from those empires/corporations/religious institutions as an existential threat to existence and to the planet. Furthermore, the "narrative promise" of the story is a confrontation with Fandaniel and Zenos. Their stories will "wrap up". The Garleans story is far from over.