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[Turnintino]

I could never buy the Golbez theory. We aren't the shard of Hermes but we can access Hermes experience just fine. We the only one who can access memories because we have the echo and the others don't. No one in the party is reacting "what? How can that be? Is that derplander?! No way!!" with the face reveal. And Yoshida directed that he doesn't want our players to be associated with non-hero stuff. Ardbert was misguided, but unlike Golbez, he didn't torture a dragon for thousands of years

This theory pertains to the unambiguously heroic OG Golbez currently contained in a memoria crystal; not Durante, who's since taken up his name and armor.

[Voidmage]

I could never buy the Golbez theory. We aren't the shard of Hermes but we can access Hermes experience just fine. We the only one who can access memories because we have the echo and the others don't. No one in the party is reacting "what? How can that be? Is that derplander?! No way!!" with the face reveal. And Yoshida directed that he doesn't want our players to be associated with non-hero stuff. Ardbert was misguided, but unlike Golbez, he didn't torture a dragon for thousands of years

The original Golbez, who people speculate being a shard and who's memories we saw, didn't torture anyone though.
They were a hero through and through.