Quote Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier View Post
I think that
Rather than not needing Dalmasca, it's more like Gabranth realized it was a lost cause. His field notes say that after losing Bozja they were getting attacked on all fronts, so I think he knew Dalmasca wasn't going to stay under his control. At that point it's better to cut your losses and get out while you still can, so he faked his death so he could work on his plan with those new weapons without being hunted and assaulted by the resistances.

Also yeah I'm bummed that this stuff was off screen. They could have made it the ending cutscene. Oh well, it's still a cool development.
Inbdeed. It seems...
At that point it was probably better to run off, regroup, and chase the bigger prize. Given the weapons they excavated it'll probably lead to the next relic weapon series, which I'm fine with. There's still a lot of dangling plot threads in there.