(04-30-2015, 07:23 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote: With Ishgard being the focus I'm pretty sure they'll be introducing something in Gridania that'll make it just as bad. Probably something like the Elementals are now dead and Gridania is completely fucked without them. It just won't be centered on Gridanian racism/xenophobia which is the problem for that city. Like, it's easy to make a plotline based on greed in Ul'dah - just gotta make a villain willing to fuck over the whole continent for a few gil more. (2.4, 2.5 patch cycles)
Making a plotline on how Gridanian racism screwed over the entire Alliance? Gonna be a tiny bit harder and involve making characters that are as well received as G'raha Tia. Or as I've heard him called, G'raha Sue, Gary Tia, etc.
I don't really agree with this. Â There's plenty of opportunity to push Gridania down a darker path except that they have fairly resolutely refused to go down that path for something like centuries at this point. Â The entire city-state is pacifist, and when Ala Mhigo threatened them 50 or so years ago, it took Ishgard stepping in to save them (even with the Elementals ready to do some busting of heads)*.
But there's plenty of tiny corruption going on, as you see with Conjurers here and there who pull the whole "will of the Elementals" bullshit for their own reasons. I'm of the personal opinion that the only reason why there isn't more of that going on is that the Padjal would start beating said Conjurers with their sticks if they caught them abusing their power.
*This is also why it makes no fucking sense, from a Lore standpoint, that Kan-E was like, "Oh no, Ishgard can just stew in its own juices" when the Scions went to the Grand Alliance asking for aid for Ishgard. Â Gridania has historically been Ishgard's closest ally and the two have had each other's backs for a long, long time.
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