Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
The Hrothgar are a prominent example when it comes to one of their clans. There's an all female tribe of Xaela as well, though equally there's an all male tribe to balance it out. Then there's the setup of Viera society where the men are made to fend for themselves in the wilds and only return when it's time to breed.

None of this bothers me. It makes for interesting flavour! Though if the writers are indeed attempting to portray Garlemald doing something similar as uniquely bad or worse then I would question how much attention they pay to their own world building.

Not that Endwalker itself was not already making me do as much, of course...

Either way, if it's not too much trouble a link to the source interview would be deeply appreciated!
Ah, my bias against Hrothgar and Viera seems to have blocked that part of my brain. To be fair to the Hrothgar, only one of their clans revered the queen and that government was said to have been super corrupt and bad for the majority. Viera are just copy-pasted in from another FF universe and were just created as an excuse to have a single gender race of hot bunny girls.

I had tried to find that interview before I posted, but it was likely almost a decade ago and the closest I can find on a quick google search at work takes me to interviews where Koji says he's going to talk about it later. I don't know if anyone knows of a repository of Koji interviews?


Speaking of copy-paste from other FF Universes, Landis would have been a better use of another country in Ilsabard other than Rozzaria. We already have the names of several cities in Landis, which already makes it bigger than most countries in the game by virtue of having more than 1 city. We also have characters who were from there and with how much it was talked about in Bozja, it seemed to have been the preeminent power in Ilsabard before the Garleans took it over. One of it's cities, according to Bwagi's field notes, seemed to be happy or at least normal and at peace under Garlean rule. The problem with it in regards to the OP's story though is that it was a republic.