(01-15-2015, 01:35 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote:(01-15-2015, 01:16 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: So much Brass Blade hate...they're not inherently corrupt, just that lorewise they are paid by clients, not on salary.It's why I enjoy the Brass Blades more than the other two. They're in the pocket of the monetarists, so they have so much more room for...rottenness. It makes them interesting, it makes them fallible, and I love that.
You know, I bet they're more competent than the Yellowjackets, at least if we were to go by the concept that Ul'dah doesn't need a band of vigilantes to keep order...
And they are set up that way, very obviously, and from the very beginning of the game - the opening video for all new Thanalanian characters.
SE is very determined to make us dislike them, and that, yes, makes them useful.
However, it doesn't always explain how Raubahn doesn't personally pick one or two of them to pummel within an inch of his life, on occasion, for when the Monetarists might occasionally forget that the Flames are not indispensable.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."
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