(02-21-2015, 09:20 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote:(02-21-2015, 12:17 PM)Intaki Wrote:That is a huge technicality. It has been stated that the extent of Ishgards part in the Eorzean Alliance is pretty much the extent of their part in current affairs. They told everyone to stay the hell out of Coerthas, and in return they would offer them meager supplies when they could. So essentially they were only ever part of the Eorzea Alliance in name alone. I believe at that point in time the only thing they really did was give Gridania Chocobos, which is why Bentbranch has their own stable.(02-21-2015, 09:16 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: The big difference though is that Gridania doesn't shun the outside world. They willingly participated in the Eorzea Alliance beforeTechnically so did Ishgard. A reeeeeally long time ago.
I'd need a source on something like that before I could even contemplate believing it.
To my knowledge no such source exists thus we have absolutely no bearing on how large or small their involvement was in the Eorzean Alliance. What we do know is that the Ishgardians bred the finest chocobo mounts on the continent and that prior to the Calamity almost no female chocobos existed south of Ishgard because they wanted to monopolize the trade and did so pretty effectively. Fairly certain it's a Bentbranch NPC who explains that but anyway, even IF, and it's a big if, the Ishgardians only supplied chocobos to the rest of Eorzea? That's still a pretty large contribution. But since we don't know what they did and how much then it's really doing no one any favors to make assumptions with little-to-no backing.
