"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[Kolsykol]

A lot of people just seem to kinda be missing the point of the sequence and Zenos as a character.
it was offering you a perspective of how the Garleans view/ viewed you.
To the Garleans you were basically Zenos, that's also why he says that you're essentially one and the same because you're the Zenos to the Garleans.

You're this ultra powerful demigod who just shows up and wipes them out en masse with ease ( which includes their loved ones and friends ), to them it's no different than Zenos slaughtering hordes of Domans or whatever.
Or what he was threatening to do in this sequence.
Whether you like Zenos or the sequence or not, a lot of people don't seem to actually understand what was going on in the narrative and what it was actually saying about you and how it was offering a perspective that was very relevant in the actual plot and what was going on with Garlemald and the Garleans.

Zenos is you without any emotional support, without the Scions.
You started out as an adventurer just wanting to get excitement in your life but the Scions changed that and your character in the narrative built connections with them and found a different purpose.
Zenos never really left that phase, he's basically a reflection of both the WoL at their core and also you as the player and how we interact with content ( or well, those who enjoy Savage and such I guess. But games in general. ).
I found him to be quite refreshing too in FFXIV in the sense that he didn't have soap opera reason behind why he did what he did his motives were just raw.
And how it leads him down a bad path too plays into the overall narrative in contrast with you.

I love Emet as a character too but not every character needs to be that, and I liked that Zenos called Alisaie and the others out on it too.
What does it even matter, it's honestly a tad selfish to demand some soap opera explanation as to why he did what he did it's more about making ourselves feel better about it but it doesn't really change anything.
This goes for real life bad stuff that happens too we always want reasons why bad things happen but it's more of a coping mechanism.
And we also do the same things constantly in video games, FFXIV included.
If you really think about it the WoL has done some really messed up stuff and ruined a lot of lives we kill pretty indiscriminately.
I mean in Copperbell Mines we just go in and kill a bunch of old enslaved giants because we're asked to and then later we show up again and kill a grieving dad.

Sure we see a lot of bad parts of Garleans but we also see a lot of bad parts of '' our own '', the story is full of horrible people on '' our side ''.