Thread: 7.1 Role quests have left me with a bad feeling (spoilers)

so i just finished the final set of RQ for dawntrail and i have to say, for the first half i was really enjoying it, the story had some real effort.. well until the game remembered its dt and had to insert some kind of 180 on everything in the final battle

apyaphi? i think her name is... she had so much potential and even convinced me of her cause. yet i feel like she was written to be done dirty by the same people who created her.. she was fighting for true freedom and had so much charm and charisma... but the WOL, the one person who should have understood her, who fought for these things too with the blade in hand and risked his own life even turned a blind eye to her.. and it feels... forced? and OOC. in stormblood i was given the option to leave everything and go with zenos.. this is freedom.. the freedom she spoke of.. to make ones own choices in life.. when she called sugar a lapdog i begrudgingly knew.. that she was right.. and he didn't even give her a good answer either.

Yet DT syphoned it away from me, the same way it syphoned away my choice to ever come to tural.. why did they do this? why does she have to rot in a cell.. this will never change her ideals.. only embolden her.. she was not wrong... she did nothing wrong really.. she knew from the beginning who we were and how dangerous we were and yet she still trusted us.. ive betrayed her and ive betrayed others who fought for freedom like fordola and lyse..

what is happening with the writing lately.. why is every problem in this game so black and white.. morals and meshed into a single colour instead of complex and questionable.. i am loosing hope over and over for this expansion.. why do you keep throwing away good things?

The point about Apyaahi is they are a populist-type leader. They will only say whatever is appetizing to the listeners who are riled up into a fervor, drunk on the promises given. They, the revolutionary leader, are corrupt. And that the only thing they learned from the fight was if they could bend the laws by being in a position to do so, instead of using just violence, they can make the lives of others worse. A common trend about populist-type leaders is they are outsiders who wish to win over the people, claiming they will rip out the roots of corruption, but then when given the power to do so, they will show they are every bit as corrupt as the previous leader and potentially more dangerous than the ruling state before. That populist-type leaders tend to swing towards dictatorship, as while they are good at pleasing a crowd, they are not exactly good/healthy for the day to day of actually doing the paperwork required to run such a group of people.

Like lets play a game. Apyaahi gets out of prison, becomes the next leader of Tural. What do you think the laws would be changed under her? Well I can already guess based on what she dislikes, that she would seek to make Tural not use a currency-based system, changing it back to one of free labor. After all, that is the big grievance they have, the reason they went on their whole thing about freedom, about not wanting to earn coin just to pay for a common service, room and board, like everyone else.

If they, Apyaahi and the other members of her group had focused their efforts on one region together, such as Xak Tural, they would have caused greater damage together instead of being spread out. As Apyaahi's totem is of endless beast summoning, the ability to create an army out of essentially thin air, while she also plays the role as the voice and icon that people follow under. Virazahn's totem is of natural disasters but his aim is of being the fake hero who staged fights where they pretend to swoop in and save the day. Leophyne's totem is putting multiple people to sleep, such as with her grudge against knights who would try to stop the beasts or a riot caused by those who follow under Apyaahi's words. Samidare's totem is of perfect disguise, where they could make someone appear as anyone, and that their original job was as a spy for garlemald who obtained information. Ellerete and Kokonowa's totem is about creating various kind of toxins, aka biochemical warfare, with differing effects but can also be used to cleanse those toxins. Chalteaufite's totem can grant someone a very protective barrier that can also damages those who attack, and his whole thing was appealing to the downtrodden.

And the thing is, we see the difference in ideology of totem usage. That the yok huy and the five tribes we help, use it to make the lives of others more bearable and easier to survive in unforgiving parts of the world. While those of the unbound passage only show they will use the totem for destructive purposes and put's the average person in danger.