DT's Writing: What Could've Been Better

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To be fair, Wuk Lamat wasn't as determined to understand Zoraal Ja as she was Bakool Ja Ja and the Yok Huy guy because he killed her dad and a bunch of her countrymen. And even though Sphene was also in on it, she'd realized how similar they were as people and wanted to try reaching her through that, even if it didn't work in the end. With Zoraal Ja she realized their similarities too late.

Yeah but at the time, Zoraal Ja's ambitions were to "conquer", so as his sister, she should have tried to understand him more according to her own philosophy, and thereby try to find common ground or change his mind? She gave her own brother up pretty quickly, while showing nothing but respect and patience towards the Yok Huy. But yes, it's another thing they didn't dive into because of a lack of time, I guess? I'm just confused by how little they achieved with the time they had.

I didn't bring this up in the first post because it might've gone past the character limit, but while it's not unique to Dawntrail (there are plenty scenes throughout the game where the WOL just stands there while an NPC gets seriously hurt or killed), the forced incompetence was definitely a problem. Wuk Lamat being too trusting makes sense, but it's hard to believe everyone else would let her go off with a stranger. I think the writers did stuff like that because they wouldn't have time to progress the plot the way they wanted to without it. Easier to have nobody stop her than come up with a better reason why she got abducted.

Yes, other expansions also had this problem with "just standing there", that's definitely true! I remember having a similar feeling after the Satrap was killed in Endwalker, but the "it happened too fast" was at least a bit more believable in the context. And also, the writing was overall better, so I was willing to look past it.