Summary
- Final Fantasy 14 is in desperate need of some real threat after Dawntrail, and a villain killing off one of our beloved Scions would be a great way to do that.
- Time and time again, we've overcome overwhelming odds no worse for wear, which has led to Final Fantasy 14 feeling a little safe and predictable.
- Older Scions feel like they're just taking up room, so why not have one of them serve the greater narrative by having them bumped off? I'm looking at you, Thancred.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion has been out for a little while now, and I’m just about done soaking up the sun and 168澳洲幸꧙运5开奖网:partici꧃pating in elaborate wrestling matches. Evil forces are being teased, we have a mysterious hourglass key doohickey that could potentially let us visit 𓂃different Shards at will, and it feels like a lot of loose threads have been left dangling to set up the next decade of twists and turns. I’m ready for the stakes to be raised and have my heart broken again, but I find myself asking how Yoshi-P is going to manage it this time.
Throughout Dawntrail, our Warriors of Light are constantly brought up in casual conversation as the strongest people alive, having traveled to the edge of the known universe to defeat a being so powerful that it threatened to wipe out all life. We’ve defeated gods, villౠains bent on world domination, and the physical manifestation of grief, so if Yoshi-P is planning to create a new villain that will actually put us on the back foot again, he’s going to have to do something brutal to get the point across. Killing a Scion would be a great way to do that.
It’s been a while since 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 14 has killed off a proper Scion. You have to cast your mind back to Heavensward’s post-expansion storyline for the last time a major character died, as ♓poor little Paplymo sacrificed himself to stop the impending rampage of Shinryu.
We’ve had scares in the past. Y’shtola may as well apply for permanent residency in the Lifestream, and G’raha Tia poofed into a cloud of crystal dust only to come back five minutes later. Everyone did a dramatic, five-minute vanishing act during the finale of Endwalker, but we’ve not had a permanent death among the Scions for over four expansions.
In fact, most of the game’s biggest deaths and death scares (hello Nanamo) are characters outside the Scions. Haurchefant and Ysayle were two big losses, but I wouldn't re😼ally count either as big main characters, so we really have been due a meaꦬningful death among the Scions for quite some time.
It also doesn’t help that it feels like many of them are now lingering with no real purpose. Dawntrail sidelined the characters 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:we’vꦺe grown to love over this 𝔍past decade, but I would have preferred t♊he expa🀅nsion to ditch most of them entirely. The likes of Alphinaud, Alisaie, Urianger, and Thancred h✱ave all grown as characters as much as possible. Their arcs are complete, and so their continued presence in ꦇthe story is starting to feel pointless.
Urianger and Thancred in particular played such a small role in Dawntrail that they may as well have stayed in Sharlayan, only really appearing to make up numbers for story rai🔜ds and give Koana the occasional fatherly nod of approval. It’s time for our current crop of Scions to make way for fresh blood, and Dawntrail’s focus on Wuk Lamat, Krile, Erenville, and G’raha Tia was a step in the right direction.
However, that doesn’t mean that the old-timers can’t still play a part in the story. There’s nothing that c🤪an 🤪boil the blood of a fanbase more than a beloved character being unjustly struck down by a villain - I’m inviting the wrath of the community for merely suggesting the idea - but given how powerful the Scions are perceived to be now, killing one of them would immediately establish any new foe as a massive threat for both our Warrior of Light and the Source itself.
Urianger is one of my favorite characters in the game, and Final Fantasy as a whole, but he’s better off being sacrificed for the greater narrative rather than reduced to a pointless cameo character just because people like him. ♛Yoshi-P can’t just introduce another world-ending threat because we’ve spent hundreds of hours seeing our companions make it out of trouble no worse for wear time and time again. Did anyone really think Zoraal Ja was going to pose any kind of danger once the Scions reassembled once again?
Which Scion Needs To Die?
Now that we’ve established that a Scion needs to die (and absolutely none of you disagree with me), the question is which one should get the chop? If Square Enix wanted to be really brave, I’d suggest Alphinaud or Alisaie. Our Warriors of Light are clearly attached to them the most, and they’re established as the poster children foꦦr Final Fantasy 14 at this point, but this could be Final Fantasy’s Ned Stark moment. On the one hand, I’m not heartless enough to wish death upon two sixteen-year-olds. On the other, both have grown to their full potential as characters, so what's left for them at this point?
We then turn our attent🐬ion to the adults, and I feel like Estinien and Y’shtola have a little more room to grow. The former hasn’t quite outgrown his tendency to keep himself isolated, while Y’shtola’s obsession with knowledge at any cost could be a good launch point for a storyline now that she’s got her hands on a mysterious world-hopping artifact. She also needs to keep her promise to Runar, and I would rather stop playing Final Fantasy 14 entirely than be deprived of that particular reunion.
Krile and G’raha Tia need more screen time given the direction the story is likely headed after Dawntrail, which leaves Thancred and Urianger as our prime victims. Both of them 👍have nowhere to go as characters, they are quite literally meandering around until someone gives them something to do or another youngster to parent, and they’ve both been there since day one, so their deaths would have the most impact. Thancred is undoubtedly the more loved out of the two though, which makes sense given their past actions.
Sorry Thancred, I’ve marked you for death, and if Yoshi-P wants to inject some real stakes into Final Fantas♈y 14 and give us a villain to truly despise, he’ll💝 channel his inner George RR Martin and kill you off pretty soon.
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