(01-16-2014, 11:05 PM)ansemaru Wrote: It's kind of weird, to be honest... There's nothing telling us the Twelve are benevolent, or even what we think they are. And honestly, the fact that they could be summoned just the same as Primals makes it seem that they're not what people accept at face value at all!
I mean, it's sort of a staple of FF at this point that religious authorities and gods aren't necessarily trustworthy, and more often than not end up being antagonists. The Church of Saint Ajora, Yevon, the Occuria, the Fal'Cie, the Warring Triad... at this point, it's honestly more shocking to find a wholly benevolent religious organization or deity than one that is antagonistic or at least dangerously apathetic to the plight of mankind. I know it's easy to say "oh, the Primals are the evil gods in FFXIV", but at the same time, isn't that like assuming the Scions in FFXII are the ultimate evil?
The biggest difference in this case is that there doesn't appear to be a truly "organized" religion. Â There are very few houses of worship, and Nald'thal, for instance, has a particularly grim aspect to him if you poke around Ul'dah for any length of time. Â It's hard to make it a worldwide conspiracy when there's no organization conspiring. Â The gods divorced themselves from mortal affairs like, 5 astral eras ago, due to the damage they had caused at that time.
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