"You've battled and defeated the greatest threat in the universe, where do you possibly go from there?" is the wrong question. The story can challenge

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I have seen this question, or this opinion, repeated multiple times.

One comment that I saw about Shadowbringers, one that resonated with a lot of people, was very relevant to this context, and the comment was:

The Scion's didn't have all the answers. In fact, at the end, the Scion's had none of the answers and our characters were fucked. We were facing down inevitable destruction on the scale that would fully doom the world's people with absolutely no solution in sight. Not even Y'sthola, madam solve all the problems, could solve our problem.

It's not needed to downscale the power of the WoL or any character even to make them face some kind of challenge.

It's not. Needed.

You start bringing complicated problems that don't really have easy answers and the whole process of finding these answers is what makes the journey of character growth.

I think it's harmful to have that take where FFXIV is having this kind of "Dragon Ball Z" or "shounen" power creep because that might be seen as some kind of feedback that the community is *expecting* that kind of writing going forward, and that kind of writing is much more shallow, with a lot less nuance, and a lot less long-time development of concepts to finally address them (best case I can think of, Emperor Solus, the reveal that he was still alive, all the way to the last goodbye to Emet-Selch in Endwalker)..

Do you agree? Do you disagree? Do you think it's a bit different and more nuanced?

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