Foreign Invasion

[Cleretic]

A lot of the War of the Magi is a mystery, but one of the few things that we know wasn't was that Diabolos was manipulating Mhach and pulling the strings to get himself more power; part of this was deliberately teaching them how to seal Scathach wrong so that he'd be able to consume her. Amdapor kinda threw some wrenches into that plan, but that means that yes, we know that there's at least one instance of voidsent staging an attack on the Source of their own initiative, and it's in a context where it's unclear how big such an attack could have been. Maybe it was Diabolos as a lone but powerful agent, maybe he had a whole damn faction.

Combining that with the fact we know for a certainty that Golbez is angling for an attack on the Source, that would make going to the Void to kick Golbez's army in the teeth something roughly equivalent to when we liberated Ala Mhigo. The fact that they're not attacking us at scale literally right now doesn't mitigate the facts at hand that:

1. They have done so before,
2. They clearly have intention to do so again, and would like to do so sooner rather than later,
3. And that they aren't exactly creating a state of affairs in their homeland that the public like.

Point three makes intervening a liberation mission, while points one and two make it a proactive defense. And of course then there's Azdaja making it a rescue mission, too, and which one of those three it is probably differs depending on which member of our group you ask.

Necrotica's going to pretend some or all of these aren't legitimate points to keep being angrily contrary and desperately trying to find an angle for 'the WoL is baaaaaad', but I'm not stating this for her, I'm stating this for anyone else who happens to be here and thinking about this: yeah, it's not exactly worse than what we did in Stormblood. Probably better, actually, depending on if you think Zenos was a better ruler of Ala Mhigo than Golbez is of voidsent.