(02-24-2016, 10:26 PM)Nero Wrote: Also, it might be a reference to something from 1.0, but Thancred feeling responsible for not stopping a goobbue from breaking free in Ul'dah and killing Minfillia's dad is...good lord. I don't even know how to describe how utterly idiotic I find it.
Well... okay, out of context it sounds silly, until you realize that the goobbue breaking free in the middle of a parade was a plot set up by the children of some of the former Syndicate (including but not limited to F'lhaminn and Amajina hyur-tossing lalafells). The plan was to publicly put a stop to the goobbue and claim the fame. However, the goobbue escapes prematurely and none of the Syndicate children are ready for it, so Thancred tries to intervene, but he was being "distracted" by none other than a gorgeous young F'lhaminn, Minfilia's now adopted mother. The goobbue escapes and flees into the alleyways where it almost crushes young Minfilia who was passing out flowers to the refugees because F'lhaminn asked her to so she'd be out of the way. Warburton, Minfilia's father, pushes his daughter out of the way but is crushed instead.
You later find out that the real travesty is that Minfilia's father, Warburton, was a member of the Ala Mhigan Resistance and more importantly an Imperial double agent who was carrying vital information about the Empire's plans for the primals to his handler in Ul'dah, ironically, the mastermind behind the escaped goobbue plot. His intelligence died with him. Anywho, how did the Goobbue escape early? Warburton's partner, another Garlean double agent, offed him and Niellefresne, F'lhaminn's lover and Warburton's handler to keep the intel secret. When Thancred figures all of this out, he confronts the Syndicate children in a game of cards, and soundly trounces all of them, taking all of their money from them. He then uses the money to buy Warburton's funeral. Destroyed by the guilt of what she had helped commit, F'lhaminn adopts the young Minfilia.
