Haha Gerolt showing up to give Mikoto relationship advice.
Meanwhile, at the legion of doom!... they excavated something? A giant robot like Ultima Weapon?
I believe Gabranth did say that holding Bozja and Nagxia were optional objectives. Only Dalmasca matters. Maybe you should stick with your king's plan? You have the Eastern Alliance united against you and you're stretching yourselves thin. Mind as well pack up to go fortify and help your boss out.
Cid, that was YOUR FATHER who blew up Bozja (while tempered by Bahamut), not you. This isn't your cross to carry.
"March of the Bloody Queen" hm... is Misija going to pull a Yslaye, transforming into Primal Gunnhildr to stop the Imperial airship and die?
Come on Menenius! You completely missed hitting literally any Bozjan Resistance forces! Even Zeon was able to wipe out half of the Feddie fleet with their death star colony laser!
Why would the general of the Dalmascan resistance herself come to save Mikoto? She should be commanding. This is a task that should have been assigned to another agent.
It's rather immersion breaking that in the cutscene, all Garlean airships had their engines exploded and crashed... but when you exit the cutscene, wham, you hear the sound of Garlean airships bombarding the settlement and flying around Zadnor like normal. Should've had the airships phased per player.
General Fran's outfit is pretty dumb. Everyone is geared up and ready for war, wearing brigadines and bullet proof vests and wearing bandoilers, ready to ready a fortified position, and this is all very serious military talk... and then you have the girl in the lingerie bunny girl outfit. It made sense in FFXII, when Baltheir and Fran weren't a part of any military organization and were just casual adventurers doing their own thing, but it's really jarring in this context.
Respect. You're the best Tribunus in the game. Doing what you can for your king and looking out for your guys. I presume you will allow your men to surrender if their escape is impossible.
"Coward"? Where on earth is this coming from, Lyon? Your boss is sacrificing himself in a rearguard action so you guys can escape and continue to fight for the king!
Hm. So now Misija has the magic sword. Is this just going to be a repeat of Tactics Ogre's ending, where the empire's men are on the run, and they summon a demon at the last second, and a holy/magic sword is used to seal it?
Menenius' mech seems to have propellant tanks attached, like that of a Gundam or a Zaku. Are they Ceruleum fuel tanks? Wouldn't they have ruptured along with the Dalriada's fuel tanks when Cid did his resonance thing?
Where did Menenius and Lyon go after the platform fell? Did they jump off after I did?
We timed out on the Diablo Armament fight with 8% HP left. Died like 20 times during that fight. Darn. Will try again tomorrow. Anyway, it seems that Diablo Armament is based off of a voidsent (Diablolos? But he wasn't captured by Allag so I don't know how they could have gotten a hold of him to build a mecha based off of him/enslave him... unless Diablolos' form isn't unique, and there is a whole species of Diablolos? This would have had to have been a rather late Allagan construct, as Emperor Xande making deals with the Void came right before the fall of Allag, which means that Ultima Weapon would have been constructed prior. So the Diablo Armament could have utilized knowledge from building the Ultima Weapon, hence why the Diablo Armament might be canonically stronger, though so far it doesn't seem to have a canonically super awesome attack like Ultima.
Next day. Killed it. Didn't die once.
Again, Menenius is awesome.
Awww Misija passed out before I could slit her throat. Too bad.
Oh no. Yeah... I think the wrong side won here.
... What? You had zero responsibility for Misija! She had already betrayed the Resistance long before the WoL and Mikoto met her! And Mikoto barely knew Misija for... what? 10 minutes at most? What?
Uh... what? YOU said that holding Bozja and Nagxia was not a priority; it was a bonus that would be nice IF it could be done. Don't renege on your word now!
So it seems that Gabranth is terminally ill. Who does he plan to succeed his kingdom after he passes away? If he takes a wife and sires a child, then when he dies... who will be regent? Lyon? You probably shouldn't alienate the most trusted guy you have left, Gabranth.
Hm... so the Echo can be tied to one's bloodline? Interesting. So Zenos' dreams of the final days could be tied to his genetic lineage to Emet-Selch? Well, the Amaurotine Hades' soul, not the Garlean body he possesed... unless a soul inhabiting a body can still pass down the echo to the descendants of the soul it was inhabiting? If the WoL had children, could the kids get the echo/be born with an ancient amaurotine soul too?
As Ashe did indeed live. I was wondering if the secret leader of the Dalmascan Resistance was going to be Ashe, or maybe a secret daughter or a niece (like how Basch in FFXIV is dead and a new character, his son Noah, takes up the role of Gabranth).
Ashe's fake death happened 30 years ago... so Ashe would be in her 50s the next time we see her. She might be the first middle aged human woman we ever actually see in the game. Would also be nice to see what an older Ashe would look like (like how we saw old Basch in a flashback).
Hold up. So you're telling me that Lyon assasinated Gabranth? Lyon, who had fought for years alongside Basch, and knew Gabranth seen he was a baby? Lyon, who was diehard loyal to Gabranth, and even accepted being demoted earlier in the Bozja storyline? And he just turns on Gabranth? Yeah, Gabranth was being an idiot imprisoning Lyon, but for Lyon to break his lifelong friendship with Gabranth and kill him over that, rendering everything Menenius and the IVth Legion did meaningless? What?
And Dalmasca is liberated offscreen? So we won't even get a Dalmasca liberation arc in Endwalker? We won't ever get to assault the IVth Legion's capital city of Lea Monde? We won't get to see Ashe come out of the shadows and retake Dalmasca? What?
So... what? If we get a third IVth Legion storyline in Endwalker... it's going to be Gabranth suddenly showing up and taking over Dalmasca? With what army?