![]() Raubahn was considered by the game to be Ul’dah’s leader, as military leader (a role he reprises in Ala Mhigo as the provisional governing council sorts things out) she was still a child in 1.0. For 15 years she has been considered a puppet ruler, too young to make her own decisions, the Syndicate (split between Royalists and Monetarists) handling governance. Accident? Plot? She says she’s never looked too deeply into it as she doesn’t want to know it’s enough to mourn what little she recalls of them, and her lost childhood. She was crowned at the age of 5 when her parents died. Honestly, it’s quite good, if originally long, and was given 3+ patches to play out.īut Nanamo is only 20 years old per lore. I haven’t had a chance to replay the 2.x patches yet since the revamp and trim down, but the times I did replay them before that, knowing what was coming, I took the time to really look at the Many tangled threads of the heretics, the Ivy’s espionage, the Crystal Braves, and the dueling Monetarist schemes, to see how they all interconnected as the web drew together to result in the Banquet. Nanamo is a particularly infamous example, since it was part of the complicated political plot of the ARR patch cycle and kicked us into Heavensward. When they do, it’s often shown to be an error in their judgement, usually due to their own inexperience. * gestures at the real world and the conflicting ideologies in each of our own nations and how that can be a struggle to change, even with strong leadership.*Įven Nanamo and Hien as sovereigns don’t make unilateral decisions that affect their nations in the way, say, the Garlean royal family did. Something a lot of folks overlook, I think, when they ask “Why doesn’t Eorzean Leader X Do Something about Y issue in their city-state?!” Is because, well,Īnd it’s not that easy to just make an entire nation of people change their minds. austerity speech to Nanamo in 4.1, given all we know about him from not just the Inspector quests but also Gold Saucer and Starlight holidays, struck me more as trying to get her to think of the bigger picture and not repeat her impetuous mistakes that led to the coup and Banquet at the end of ARR. Going back to a recent ask, honing in on this part:
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