Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
This "benevolent monarch waiting to take their country back" plot has already happened with Hien and Doma. Gaius for some reason was made defender of Werlyt. The Hannish people kept their dragon lord when their ruler died and it was revealed he was operating behind the scenes. Would you still be complaining about it if they had an Ashe or Larsa figure to appear and gallantly rise the power of a single-ruler government and rule benevolently every single time a government is toppled or in crisis and that we need a republic in there to shake it up or do you just have a thing about monarchies?

I feel like this is less about repeated story elements and more about how you have a tendency to pop into threads to let people know how much you don't like republics in fiction. I don't know anyone else who has had a problem with this and of those stories, only the government switchover in Ishgard had any actual role in the plot. Ala Mhigo and Eulmore sort of just happened because there wasn't a need in the plot to concentrate on regime change more than a quest or two since as you say it's trodden ground, and Garlemald is a pile of cinders that people can barely live in, let alone a nation. We haven't even crossed that bridge yet.
It's hilariously ironic that the FAE of all races actually have one of the better systems of deposing and replacing a monarch. And even in that case, said monarch was such a threat that all they could initially do was ignore them until someone came along to actually perform the impeachment proceedings.