I'm probably going to nitpick a bit but the Garleans work a lot like the Roman Empire. They do not necessarily conquer land to impose their ways. They conquer to bring order and peace, as mentionned countless times by Baelsar for example. Well at least, that's the official ideal of course. The mileage may vary depending on the person, as for everything. Bad apples everywhere and all that.
In any case, they grab new lands, but don't impose that much actually. Especially the less problematic and confrontational the conquered nation proves to be. They get to keep their own laws, rules, culture and governors as long as it doesn't directly conflict with imperial rule above. Garleans are not that much interest into telling people what to do and how to live their lives. What they are interested in is that everyone make their share of duty for the whole Empire itself, working toward civilization and order.Â
The Garlean Empire is more or less thriving to follow what the Allagan Empire was. A strong, unparalleled rule of Mankind United if you will.
The primals are not really competition for them but just the ultimate direct threat. When they launched their fleet above Mor Dhona and got into battle with Midgardsomr and his brood, the fall of the Agrius and the resulting explosion broke the seal of the allagan prison here where all the primals were bound (a bit like Bahamut in the artificial moon Dalamud).
The garleans were not prepared for this and as far as I know it was the first time they witnessed primal power. That's where they suddenly shifted their priorities to their pure and total annihilation. As Baelsar said it, they associated the willingness of Eorzeans not to deal with the source of the problem as they saw it: the beast tribes that continuously keep summoning those primals.
If you put yourself in their shoes, you have a neighbor that keep say, building up unsafe nuclear plants at your border and keep blowing them up, you are probably going to seriously be pissed at them and take them as a threat. If they don't want to hear you and admit they have a problem of grave safety to be dealt with, you are probably going to eventually want to kick them down.Â
Well that's the same thing with garleans. Eorzeans don't want to deal with their beast tribes that continue to summon extremely potent, unpredictable and dangerous weapons (primals). Garleans, being a bit extreme in all they do, then considered eorzeans as traitors and beast tribe protectors. Thus, condoning primals essentially, so they deemed eorzeans as part of the threat themselves. Â That's basically what Baelsar tells the Warrior of Light when he gets totally baffled that the WoL is actually talking with beast tribes.
It is, of course, hypocritical of garleans since they are after all at the origin of why the primals got free of their allagan prison. It gets even more ironic as the garleans basically gave unconsciously the means for beast tribes to oppose their eorzean oppressors by summoning those primals.
The Hearer gift is twofold: you can like Sylphie be a natural at it, and then train to understand it and not just Hear, but you can also not be a natural at it like most conjurers, and work hand in hand with nature and elementals to eventually be able, maybe, someday, to Hear like a newborn natural would.
Bad apples among Hearers is probably a thing, like in any job or milieu really. If you dont want to get caught, then you have to be careful and good at tricking your peers. And I bet that in the case of Hearers, you would have to trick padjals, which is no small feat.
But at the same time, once you get above that (since padjals are few and scarse), you basically get a free pass to make up whatever you want since well, you are the only one to Hear anyway, so who cares if you tell lies? The trick is just not to make up any shit too big for any other conjurer or Hearer to notice that you are just being a little shit...
And also, the Elementals probably don't care if you make up shit. They will just start caring if it disturbs the balance of the Wood. But if you say "That mighan family is NOT approved by the Elementals" because you are a racist asshole of a Hearer, why would Elementals even care? Human problems. Racism is not even a thing among Elementals. They wouldn't even be able to say it's racism anyway, they wouldn't know the concept.
In any case, they grab new lands, but don't impose that much actually. Especially the less problematic and confrontational the conquered nation proves to be. They get to keep their own laws, rules, culture and governors as long as it doesn't directly conflict with imperial rule above. Garleans are not that much interest into telling people what to do and how to live their lives. What they are interested in is that everyone make their share of duty for the whole Empire itself, working toward civilization and order.Â
The Garlean Empire is more or less thriving to follow what the Allagan Empire was. A strong, unparalleled rule of Mankind United if you will.
The primals are not really competition for them but just the ultimate direct threat. When they launched their fleet above Mor Dhona and got into battle with Midgardsomr and his brood, the fall of the Agrius and the resulting explosion broke the seal of the allagan prison here where all the primals were bound (a bit like Bahamut in the artificial moon Dalamud).
The garleans were not prepared for this and as far as I know it was the first time they witnessed primal power. That's where they suddenly shifted their priorities to their pure and total annihilation. As Baelsar said it, they associated the willingness of Eorzeans not to deal with the source of the problem as they saw it: the beast tribes that continuously keep summoning those primals.
If you put yourself in their shoes, you have a neighbor that keep say, building up unsafe nuclear plants at your border and keep blowing them up, you are probably going to seriously be pissed at them and take them as a threat. If they don't want to hear you and admit they have a problem of grave safety to be dealt with, you are probably going to eventually want to kick them down.Â
Well that's the same thing with garleans. Eorzeans don't want to deal with their beast tribes that continue to summon extremely potent, unpredictable and dangerous weapons (primals). Garleans, being a bit extreme in all they do, then considered eorzeans as traitors and beast tribe protectors. Thus, condoning primals essentially, so they deemed eorzeans as part of the threat themselves. Â That's basically what Baelsar tells the Warrior of Light when he gets totally baffled that the WoL is actually talking with beast tribes.
It is, of course, hypocritical of garleans since they are after all at the origin of why the primals got free of their allagan prison. It gets even more ironic as the garleans basically gave unconsciously the means for beast tribes to oppose their eorzean oppressors by summoning those primals.
The Hearer gift is twofold: you can like Sylphie be a natural at it, and then train to understand it and not just Hear, but you can also not be a natural at it like most conjurers, and work hand in hand with nature and elementals to eventually be able, maybe, someday, to Hear like a newborn natural would.
Bad apples among Hearers is probably a thing, like in any job or milieu really. If you dont want to get caught, then you have to be careful and good at tricking your peers. And I bet that in the case of Hearers, you would have to trick padjals, which is no small feat.
But at the same time, once you get above that (since padjals are few and scarse), you basically get a free pass to make up whatever you want since well, you are the only one to Hear anyway, so who cares if you tell lies? The trick is just not to make up any shit too big for any other conjurer or Hearer to notice that you are just being a little shit...
And also, the Elementals probably don't care if you make up shit. They will just start caring if it disturbs the balance of the Wood. But if you say "That mighan family is NOT approved by the Elementals" because you are a racist asshole of a Hearer, why would Elementals even care? Human problems. Racism is not even a thing among Elementals. They wouldn't even be able to say it's racism anyway, they wouldn't know the concept.
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu