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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Of the major faction leaders I think only Aymeric is better in terms of not being an idiot by your standards.

I mean, yes and no. The faction leaders mostly suck! That's a big part of the game.

I like Nanamo a lot but she's painfully naive and inadequate as a ruler and lets an evil capitalist syndicate actually rule UlDah. Her thing about deposing them to implement democracy unfortunately never went anywhere IIRC.

Kan-E-Senna is a joke. Just kind of boring as a character, plus has to serve the will of the Elementals, and those guys DEFINITELY suck.

Merlwyb was awful for most of the game. There is this whole thing with Yshtola calling her out for being a greedy racist pirate lord who antagonizes the beast tribes for wealth, and Limsa itself is kind of a crime-ridden hellhole. She gets a redemption arc, which is good! But it's the game explicitly acknowledging she sucked ass for a long time so I don't think this is a hot take.

Aymeric, Lyse, Raubahn, the Crystal Exarch, and the motherfucking based as hell eglitarian communist utopian gobbies in Idylshire are all fine to great! No problems with them.

Hien is actually unique in that he sucks but the story doesn't draw attention to it. All of his battles are won by getting other people (like the Xaela tribes) to fight for him. That's an interesting angle, but the story really wants us to think Hien himself is cool and he just isn't.

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