[Pre-5.0 spoilers, you've been warned]
1. Was the attempted assassination of Nanamo Ul Namo ever addressed before we traveled to The First?
I ask because when I went into an inn room, I decided to watch some old cutscenes. One of the ones I decided to watch was the framing of the Scions for regicide against the Sultanate. And, if my memory is correct... this whole thing kinda went nowhere. Sure, it served as a great lead-in for Heavensward by making us refugees on the lam, but the actual treason committed by the Monetarists has seen to have gone unpunished. And that would be one thing if Nanamo actually had died. But... she didn't. And she knows it was a ruse by the Monetarists to gain power in addition to keeping her from abolishing the monarchy like she was planning to do that very night. And yet, seems like the Monetarists are better off now than they were prior, now that Lolorito is profiting off of Ala Mhigan labor.
2. I don't think Varis was being mind controlled at the parley, like some had suggested.
This is my favorite scene in the game just due to how insane it is. Just goes off the rails at a coin flip. But I've heard people speculate that Varis wasn't donning the clown makeup by choice, and he was being be bodysnatched/mind controlled by Elmet-Selch or Elidibus.
But one of the other scenes I watched was Cutscene 3 of "Prelude in Violet", where - after ES reminds Varis is his place as nothing more than an enforcer made to carry out whatever the Ascians want to do - Varis shoots him, and says that man controls his own destiny. Then ES pops back up in a new body, and proceeds to remind Varis that their goals are essentially the same: to restore mankind to its rightful place. And during the parley, Varis not only passively acknowledges that his goals are essentially the same as the Ascians, but also reveals to the EA that Garlemald was founded by an Ascian. Then he suggests that the only way the Ascians can be defeated is if mankind were back in its "perfect" state. So, we can safely assume the Ascians & Garleans have the same means to the same ends, but different motives.
Varis was in his right mind, and the "disturbance" people referenced with the lights flickering seems to be nothing more than a display of cinematography that sets an uneasy, tense stage for the wild shit Varis was about to say. Personally, I think people were just really caught off guard by Varis using seemingly logical reasoning in the first half of the parley (even though his reasoning is really just "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY" and no one thought to leave the Pirate Queen out of the emperor-bashing party), then pulling out his swastika arm band in the second half.
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1. Was the attempted assassination of Nanamo Ul Namo ever addressed before we traveled to The First?
I ask because when I went into an inn room, I decided to watch some old cutscenes. One of the ones I decided to watch was the framing of the Scions for regicide against the Sultanate. And, if my memory is correct... this whole thing kinda went nowhere. Sure, it served as a great lead-in for Heavensward by making us refugees on the lam, but the actual treason committed by the Monetarists has seen to have gone unpunished. And that would be one thing if Nanamo actually had died. But... she didn't. And she knows it was a ruse by the Monetarists to gain power in addition to keeping her from abolishing the monarchy like she was planning to do that very night. And yet, seems like the Monetarists are better off now than they were prior, now that Lolorito is profiting off of Ala Mhigan labor.
2. I don't think Varis was being mind controlled at the parley, like some had suggested.
This is my favorite scene in the game just due to how insane it is. Just goes off the rails at a coin flip. But I've heard people speculate that Varis wasn't donning the clown makeup by choice, and he was being be bodysnatched/mind controlled by Elmet-Selch or Elidibus.
But one of the other scenes I watched was Cutscene 3 of "Prelude in Violet", where - after ES reminds Varis is his place as nothing more than an enforcer made to carry out whatever the Ascians want to do - Varis shoots him, and says that man controls his own destiny. Then ES pops back up in a new body, and proceeds to remind Varis that their goals are essentially the same: to restore mankind to its rightful place. And during the parley, Varis not only passively acknowledges that his goals are essentially the same as the Ascians, but also reveals to the EA that Garlemald was founded by an Ascian. Then he suggests that the only way the Ascians can be defeated is if mankind were back in its "perfect" state. So, we can safely assume the Ascians & Garleans have the same means to the same ends, but different motives.
Varis was in his right mind, and the "disturbance" people referenced with the lights flickering seems to be nothing more than a display of cinematography that sets an uneasy, tense stage for the wild shit Varis was about to say. Personally, I think people were just really caught off guard by Varis using seemingly logical reasoning in the first half of the parley (even though his reasoning is really just "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY" and no one thought to leave the Pirate Queen out of the emperor-bashing party), then pulling out his swastika arm band in the second half.
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