Quote Originally Posted by Dikatis View Post
However, his concerns are largely petty and overshadowed by the Final Days. And Sharlayan's opening of its borders following the end of its great work basically renders the Bibliothec's whole platform moot. It could be interesting politically to see how he and others like him would respond to this, but ultimately it's not the Warrior of Light's problem anymore and we're unlikely to explore it.
Is the Bibliothec's platform moot? Or did Endwalker just constitute a rhetorical loss that they have to rebuild from? The Bibliothecs are essentially isolationist conservatives; they're a political party. Political parties don't die after one policy pillar crumbles, they're just gonna pick a new angle. Hell, they might not even need to; they might just campaign on the events of Endwalker being a mistake and appeal to a base we don't really hear much about!

'Not our problem' is a big thing here, though. I would adore a game about high fantasy election politics (in fact I did, Metaphor ReFantazio is amazing), but that's not exactly a story that's gonna give us the scale and material that people play FFXIV for; it's gonna be really hard to get dungeons, trials, raids and zones out of the Bibliothecs doing some campaigning on a new policy. I could see it being good material for a role quest, but that hits a separate problem that Sharlayan is poorly-built for that in terms of zones; it'd feel a little weird to do that scale of adventuring only in Old Sharlayan and Labyrinthos.