Discrepancy in lore (spoilers)

[Alleo]

I just figured that was because WoL didn't want to slaughter a bunch of people. Later on Fray is like "Give up my weapon and go quietly? I don't think I'll be doing that again, thanks."

Which is still a bit strange since the WoL should be at least able to punsh a bit especially if you are a monk. Also its not like we needed to slaughter people. As a BLM you can sleep them. Ýou can even bind them or simply knock them out. The WoL is really lucky that Raubahn helped us otherwise would we really just have sit there and let everyone else die? After all, when Raubahn did lose his arm and we did run away we suddenly remembered that we can fight...or at least the Scions did.

And if they took away our weapon how did we get it back?

Wol fame derives originally from being an Eikon Slayer due to the blessing of light making the tempering issue irrelevant and buffing the Wol during certain situations to godlike levels, something that Ysale even mentions in game during Heavensward.

I do believe that the WoL is strong on her/his very own. Even when we "lost" our blessing of light we still managed to beat quite a bunch of stuff. Also its not the blessing that stops from tempering, its the echo. Having the echo does not mean that you will also have a blessing. And if I remember it correctly we have no real grasp on what the blessing does to us, at least not completely.

So yes the sad thing is that our character is a powerhouse...until the cutscene starts...

That's fairly interesting. My first time through Stormblood my biggest question was, "But what has Zenos been through that makes him stronger than me?" It never really got answered, he just was.

I remember that I thought in a similar way especially when we were suddenly able to beat not only him but a powered up version of him. The same with Ranjit...I have a really hard time believing that suddenly there are people out there that are not even on our level but much more beyond that. Its a problem (imo) when you have a character that already defeated primals like Thordan and dealt with beings like Midgardsormr or Omega. You find it harder and harder to believe that a normal person can be on the same level...and unlike us who had to constantly fight for their lifes against greater and greater enemies, Zenos seemingly did none of that. What world ending threat did he fight? How will they explain that suddenly in Endwalker he will be at our level or even beyond that again? Or will they truly wait for him to eat one of the elder primals?

I know that there are great fighters all around the world and that the WoL still can make mistakes...but just having someone there who is somehow so much stronger than the PC and us still being able to beat them at the end...it just stops being believeable and I wonder how they will solve that in the future.