[Spoilers] Garlemald is a wasted opportunity

[Bright-Flower]

I know all of this and yet it still felt poorly done.

The Garleans got the shaft almost as much as the empire in FFXV where the whole "Empire", an Empire that conquered more than their fair share of countries, becomes nothing in the backstory.

And when we do get introduced to it, it's a husk of frightened frozen soldiers and unreasonably stupid civilians.

Seems to be a recurring trend. I never played XV but the Magitek Empire in VI was the main antagonist through the first half of the game. Then Kefkak ills the emperor and screws up the world and the empire is just gone save for one random surviving trooper, and much of the capital being repurposed for Kefka's final dungeon.

Type 0 is kind enough to wait for you to actually fully defeat the Empire before the doomsday shows up.