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So the questions that still remain are:

What is the significance of the cave-in events that caused so much suffering in the past?

What is Greinfarr doing besides trying to be the Parade Hero?

Is "the thaumaturge" mentioned in the Alchemists Guild Corguevais, the thaumaturge who comes looking for you after you go asking about resurrections, or someone else?

Why does Ascilia seem to join forces with Corguevais after accusing him of murdering her father, running away, and genuinely expressing dislike of him?

Why does Corguevais make all this show of kidnapping Ascilia only to abandon her in Ul'dah at the end of it all?

And of course, who killed Niellefresne??? My only guesses is Corguevais (how'd he even get back there so quickly?) or some random other person who we don't see. Either way it's either the THM guild getting rid of someone with too much knowledge of the undead or Lolorito, trying to continue his quest for immortality as well as parley with the Garleans?
Cave-in:
I need to go back and rewatch the whole thing again (which won't be a prob cause <3 Thancred), but I was under the impression Courgevais was in there mining for gems and rocks to help with Warburton's expenses when it collapsed. He got blamed for it, and I don't think it was ever clarified if he was the one who did it. Maybe he was a noob and hit a weak spot on the wall?

Ascilia and Courgevais:
I think initially, Ascilia blames him for her father's death because he failed to keep the seal functioning on the crazy Goobbue.



In this screenshot, he basically confronts Nielle's party about the setup, implying he had no knowledge of their plan to rig the parade for their benefit.

Ascilia probably thought he was just weak, or perhaps he did it on purpose. But she needed someone to blame in her grief, so Courgevais was her first target. I imagine, sometime after that, he sets the record straight with her, and explains who he is (he definitely knows Warburton and whatever it is they were up to)

Then we come to the cutscene where she is going to flee with him. By now, she knows everything; how the parade was rigged, who Courgevais is etc, and says they will all die, alluding to information she knows from Warburton about the peril Ul'dah faces.

When Ascilia trips in their dash to the chocobo carriage, you can see the look of regret on Courgevais' face before he heads off without her; whatever his and Warburton's duty was, it was important enough that he couldn't risk getting caught then and there, even if the girl he was with was the daughter of a companion. In the outtake, one of his omitted lines was "No, I cannot fail here. Not now..forgive me Warburton."

On the surface, people are supposed to see Courgevais as the classic "villain" against Nielle & Co....but it's much more complex than that, especially when you take into consideration Nielle's party is technically the one responsible for Warburton's death and the displacement of Ascilia..so in fact, they should be the ones considered the "villains". Then we throw Thancred into the picture, who steals Nielle's thunder as the savior of the parade, and we get a very moody elezen that decides to take matters into his own hands (in a pig headed way), and it ends up costing him his life.