Quote Originally Posted by Adonan View Post
with the Garleans and their bull? I swear these people make me want to pull my own hair out. I get it, it's hard to trust your enemy, but they act as if their hands are clean in this conflict. I've lost count of how many times I've said to myself, "pot meet kettle" while talking to these people. Am I missing something? Is there a crucial plot point I'm forgetting that clearly paints us as the bad guys? These people are more prideful and arrogant than the Elezen. Mind you, I've only gone so far as meeting the commander of the 1st legion.
Decades of propaganda.

They've been lead to believe that everyone else are savages because they cling to primitive technology. The garleans rose above their racial limitations with technology so this explains their arrogance. Though this was with the aid of the ascians but they don't know that.

They're likely to be also terrified of all the other races. Imagine you're part of one sentient race among many others in the world...and your race is the only one that cannot use magic. Everyone else has the potential to do crazy stuff make fireballs fly out of their hands and it's not even rare for them to be able to do so. Wouldn't you be frightened? Furthermore the garleans were driven out of their ancestral land by magic users, which is the root of their fear and hate. And I can hardly blame them for feeling that way.