Quote Originally Posted by Reap00 View Post
This is a company that has been putting together some of the best rpg stories for over 30 years. You are in good hands in the future. I also look forward to all the Zenos nay sayers big turn around during Endwalker.
I love Zenos as a character. Villains don't have to be super complex anti-heroes with ultimate end goals to be good. (On the other hand, that doesn't make the current iteration of villains bad either!) I think we've grown to expect that good storytelling involves these elements, but some of the best hero-villain stories involve pretty black-and-white characters. Zenos is a villain because he is bored, that's his motivation - WoL provides him some measure of relief from that boredom, so most of his interactions involve some form of storytelling surrounding that - him manipulating people, him discarding his weapon for a better one, him just doing some heinous acts. He's bored and we're the meme that's made him huff under his breath a little, if not the one that made him literally LOL.