Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Eyrilona]

if the story doesn't care, why should the reader?

Yes, that is pretty much the argument why people are saying this is a badly written story. And then other people act as apologists for the story by making arguments that you can reduce to "the story never told us that the story was bad, so it isn't bad".

I can recognize that yes, by the internal logic of Dawntrail 95-100, this was the right course of action. But I can also recognize that any story that has this logic in it that contradicts the entire tradition of what the game has always been about, should have been stopped at quality assurance. For Dawntrail to be valid, all of ARR through EW and our character's involvement in it must not be. And people are taking offense with that.