Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Oh, but those aren't mental issues. (...mostly; that second Yuweyawata boss isn't doing so hot, but that might be a different problem.) Those are squarely on the physical, or are caused by an entirely different vein of experiments.

The Arcadion's fighters are facing a condition that's poorly understood and largely kept under wraps, but all evidence we have suggests the symptoms are physical. (And soul-ular, it's kinda hard to tell if souls count as 'physical' enough to be said to be exhibiting physical symptoms in FFXIV.) That's not mental, and for some reason, that seem to matter to this person.
Considering she wants to steal our soul to make hers whole, it makes me wonder if they're doing some form of physical ailment not dissimilar to self-tempering to the beast soul's primary aether signature. While I truthfully believe this raid series will end with us taking down the Chairman of the Arcadion because this is a wrestling story, a compelling side-story or twist would be finding a way to fix the problem without tearing down the entire Arcadion from the top down.