Would you be ok with a good rival figure for 7.0+?(6.0 spoilers)

[Atmaweapon510]

Zenos was pretty hit or miss as rival depending on whether you really enjoyed playing that type of story or character and whether or not you actually accepted him as a sort of twisted reflection of the WoL (for me, that was stretching it to the point where you could say anyone could function as a reflection to the WoL.)

Let's say we make a really fun friend who's also an adventurer and we genuinely have a blast traveling around with them narratively and gameplay wise. Make them have a kind of zany personality where you can play the straight man or enabler to, in order to help flesh out what kind of character you are. In trusts, they'll buff you when you're about to burst, and shield you if you have vulnerability stacks. Basically, this person should feel like your new best friend on equal footing. Then you eventually hit an ideological divide, maybe not even by the end of 7.0, but it happens and they eventually go into the frenemy status that Zenos wishes he could have had.

What follows is a mixture of things, them trying to bring you over to their side, having a pointed sparring session, having their actions and results speak for themselves, possibly even being forced to fight you. All of this culminating in a final climax that remembers all of the choices you made and respects them. Imagine taking Zenos up on his offer and just ditching him to rot by his lonesome at the edge of the world. While the end result will be the same in any case, in order to create a streamlined narrative, the goal is to better define what sort of person you want your WoL to be, using a less two-dimensional character to create better nuance.