What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Raoabolic]

The Allagans are gone but G'raha's Miqo'te tribe were still there and came there after being displaced themselves. The Garleans aren't even from there either and came from somewhere else before they were displaced. At least one of the proto-Garlean tribes created the city of Goug before the city exploded and they had to move.

Then if we allow everyone to claim land on a first come first serve basis then Limsa has some 'splanin to do. Besides, if that is how things worked then we would have a sweet game of musical chairs with land, lol. At this point the Garleans are displaced and the Miqo'tes can claim their land back. Would that give the existing Garleans casus belli to then take back said land? Now that I think about it, that sounds like a pretty sweet new storyline the game can go but I know the current writers won't touch this angle of the story with a ten foot pole, lol.

[MikkoAkure]

Then if we allow everyone to claim land on a first come first serve basis then Limsa has some 'splanin to do. Besides, if that is how things worked then we would have a sweet game of musical chairs with land, lol. At this point the Garleans are displaced and the Miqo'tes can claim their land back. Would that give the existing Garleans casus belli to then take back said land? Now that I think about it, that sounds like a pretty sweet new storyline the game can go but I know the current writers won't touch this angle of the story with a ten foot pole, lol.

I never said that the Corvosi were right in kicking out the Garleans just like the Limsans weren't right in kicking out the Kobolds but at this point hundreds of years later, the people living there have nothing to do with it. My point in bringing up G'raha is that his people were there before the Garleans were but the Garleans still claim it as solely their homeland, which is not true. The entire Garlean motivation was to take back the "homeland" from the aggressors who took it 800 years ago but the people who took it 800 years ago have been dead for centuries, just as the people who were wronged have been dead for centuries. On top of that, the Garleans didn't stop there and started conquering nations that had nothing at all to do with their original motivation so you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who backs the Garleans anyway.

Considering Fourchenault and Sharlayan are as neutral as you're going to get and the comments he made on the Garleans, I don't think a neutral party would agree that the Garleans have a proper casus belli and right to take back Corvos considering they were the occupying and invading force this time around. Sharlayan was a nation for hundreds of years before the Garleans fled Corvosi aggression so I'd trust their neutral take on things since they're been recording history since before that time as observers.


Like Theodric said, it's possible that the role quest storyline was rewritten after the events going on in the world right now since they're eerily similar to events in the game, but unless it's asked and they actually answer, we won't know. I don't think they would have had the time to redo bits of it in a hurry, but who knows.