Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Zenos attacks the Reach = We can't contest the Empire like this, have to go to the Far East. Narrative driven.

Zenos refrains from killing us and Yugiri, since we lit a fire under the Domans. He further refrains from killing the Domans, allowing them to muster force and storm Doma Castle. Narrative driven.

The thing you say plagues his character is basically the main pillar of his character.

Ran'jit and his encounters are just punctuation marks at every villa we visit in Shadowbringers. They don't add anything other than an encounter with Ran'jit, and they are annoying. They specifically exist to have some face on our bad guys, and to create a more personal story for driving up NPC drama. Ran'jit beleaguers the narrative, and the stress from the weight he adds to it is dropped as easily as it is picked up.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that when characters "refrain" from actions it drives the narrative... I could have sworn that characters with faces and npc drama are the cornerstones of character driven storytelling. Characters, on both sides of the story, drive the action by doing actions. Ran'jit does what Zenos cannot.

But yeah man, Zenos yawning from the throne really helps the narrative. It's not like we've seen many threads about the failure of his character and this is the exact reason why every believes this. Stormblood would have been better for Zenos if he was shown to have been training for next encounter with the WOL and doing research that lets him mount Shinryu. Instead he implies orders and gets bored.