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Oh, no, drow are problematic because it is demonizing people of color and that the matriarchal drow society is misogynistic because it characterizes powerful or strong women as evil and vile.

There might be a bit of something to it with the dark skin, but it is pretty obvious that the intention was for a light / dark dichotomy in the sense of good / evil and a contrast to 'normal' elves.
Its funny because the Drow started more or less as just a color inversion of original elves. Instead of often pale they were dark skinned, their natural hair color replaced with a highly contrasting white or something very pale. Instead of being wise and worshipping the old ways they're bitter, angry fucks who worship the murderous spider goddess that makes their lives miserable.

Except that duty is supposed to make you uncomfortable and helpless. It puts you in the shoes of a normal citizen and their experiences in war. It’s supposed to show you what it’s like to struggle in the game’s setting when you don’t have the power and blessings the player character has.
I always enjoy the duties that let you see the perspective of others and the sheer gap in power there is. The WoL has killdozered through every limitation and has a long list of killed deities. The average citizen can't stray too far from the safety of their hamlets or cities.
 
I always enjoy the duties that let you see the perspective of others and the sheer gap in power there is. The WoL has killdozered through every limitation and has a long list of killed deities. The average citizen can't stray too far from the safety of their hamlets or cities.
One day they will have to adequately explain WoL's power limiter breaking, unlocking Ancient potential and being a reincarnation of Azem isn't even close enough, since we are basically stronger than Emet when we fought him (not that we were exactly stronger than him at the time) by the point of the end of Dawntrail, that's a bizarre exponential increase over the course of the entirety of the plot, lest we forget, at one point, Illberd and Raubahn were significantly more powerful than WoL.

what really cemented it as ludicrous strength is beating Athena, easily one of the stronger FF Villains in terms of power and ability, and its still a curbstomp.
 
One day they will have to adequately explain WoL's power limiter breaking, unlocking Ancient potential and being a reincarnation of Azem isn't even close enough, since we are basically stronger than Emet when we fought him (not that we were exactly stronger than him at the time) by the point of the end of Dawntrail, that's a bizarre exponential increase over the course of the entirety of the plot, lest we forget, at one point, Illberd and Raubahn were significantly more powerful than WoL.
I sincerely doubt they will explain too much of it. If they need the WoL to be beaten they'll just say 'Azem rock ran outta charge'. Then have it recharge from the chalice-key when necessary. They just brought up Dynamis before when the canon required a power and then dropped it just as quickly.
 
I sincerely doubt they will explain too much of it. If they need the WoL to be beaten they'll just say 'Azem rock ran outta charge'. Then have it recharge from the chalice-key when necessary. They just brought up Dynamis before when the canon required a power and then dropped it just as quickly.
the thing is, the absence of the explanation is actually a huge plot point through out the story, many characters wonder or are struck with terror and confusion at our strength, from Elf Pope, to many characters, Zenos's entire obsession comes from it, realistically we should never be able to match him, as he's a sort of bizarre mutant exception to all the rules, so too must we be.

Hell the ENTIRE STORY is reliant on it, the Warrior of Light is essentially the infinitely sharp tip of the spear that makes the impossible, possible, the Crystal of Azem is nothing but an incantation that uses the users power, it only briefly held an external power source, during the end of Endwalker, which was spent to bring back the Scions, otherwise its just a fancy way to cast a spell , that YOU still have to cast.

To be clear, we are now stronger than any known Ancient, we are stronger than beings that had decades to plan specifically for us, Zoraal Ja, who had essentially the settings most advanced tech to do so, to no end, even the smartest thus far character, capable of seemingly perfectly analyzing and simulating our abilities with foreknowledge of who and what we are, Calyx, led him nowhere but defeat.
 
I do not think they can even explain it any more, to do so would be dissapointing so it will be something they just let linger in the background. It's been part of the almost Shonen-ification of the plot since Stormblood+, where power is constantly growing at absurdly exponential levels not just for the character, but then villians that need to challenge them. They tried to scale back the strength of villians to try make it more back in line, but it dosen't really work, cause then they can no longer ever have the WoL struggle without it making no sense or being annoying or patronizing (SPEEEEEEEEN scene comes to mind there).
 
I do not think they can even explain it any more, to do so would be dissapointing so it will be something they just let linger in the background. It's been part of the almost Shonen-ification of the plot since Stormblood+, where power is constantly growing at absurdly exponential levels not just for the character, but then villians that need to challenge them. They tried to scale back the strength of villians to try make it more back in line, but it dosen't really work, cause then they can no longer ever have the WoL struggle without it making no sense or being annoying or patronizing (SPEEEEEEEEN scene comes to mind there).
To be clear, the plot doesn't require the WoL to struggle, it requires others, nations, groups, or planets to struggle, we are the Heracles, the Perseus, the saint George that comes along and does the big things.
We were already a complete and total force of nature come Stormblood, but, and this is key, there can be still stakes because we are just one fucking person, and not all issues can be solved by elbow-dropping it.

defeating the Endsinger had way more to do with basically all the known forces we dealt with coming together and contributing to get us there, than us actually smiting the thing, our overwelming might would have meant nothing without them, since seemingly only Zenos with the juiced remains of the Mothercrystal could fly there solo.
 
I mean we only beat Emet and Endsinger because we had a ton of help. And in HW we get Hraesvelgr‘s eye juicing us up to fight Nidhogg, ARR we have Hydaelyn save us, Elidibus gets sucked into the Crystal Tower in ShB by G’raha, and Zodiark ultimately dies because Fandaniel committed suicide and dragged it with him etc.
The powerscaling stuff is a huge problem mostly because they decided to continue the story after EW. Had they stopped the story at 6.0 while the stakes were at their peak it wouldn’t have been an issue. Post EW feels like a reboot season of a TV show brought back years later or the zombie era of a long running series.
 
I mean we only beat Emet and Endsinger because we had a ton of help.
well more importantly, Emet basically set the entire thing up so that as long as we put a certain threshold of effort, he would lose, all of Shadowbringers is very complex theater on his part, he doesn't want to give up his goal, but he wants there to be a strong enough reasons that humanity deserves to continue to exist as they are, at any point he could have completely smote all the Scions with zero effort, there is absolutely zero reason he had to have multiple debates, especially the one at the gates to the final dungeon, with them, he wanted them to not just state humanities case, but put enough backbone into it to his level of acceptability.

The EXACT moment he feels this to be the case is when Ardbert and us merge, to be completely clear, Emet is feigning anger and frustration, at no moment in his living life, was he ever as happy as that moment, everything after that was even more farce than before.
 
Speaking of all of this reminded me of them trying to equate Scions praying for you to overcome the final boss of nihilism to this fucking cunt troon cat. Yes, the fucking worthless "female" hrothgar I had to drag around and do her fucking job is equal to the friends I made from when my WoL was a nobody who was in the right places at the right times.
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Speaking of all of this reminded me of them trying to equate Scions praying for you to overcome the final boss of nihilism to this fucking cunt troon cat. Yes, I am inspired by the fucking worthless "female" hrothgar I had to drag around and do her fucking job for a week than I am with the friends I made from when my WoL was a nobody who was in the right places at the right times.
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even if she wasn't voiced by a Troon it wouldn't work, just on its face, the entire plot is retarded, us even being in their entourage doing all the heavy lifting should immediately nullify Wuk's victory, conscripting the Worlds Strongest Being (left standing at least) for a test of strength, skill and intelligence is such a fucking retarded plot, how can I possibly equate this to Wuk and their desires and victories? they just come across as the WoL's and the Scions.

Never has a team fucked up by swapping out a writer for a shittier one harder in gaming, they had a lightning in a bottle writer for the last 2 and a half expansions and immediatley swapped for that retard.
 
Let's be real, the only thing inspiring about the Scions was Minfilia's tits..and Y'sholta's if you are a degenerate catgirl fucker.
G'raha's pretty inspiring, a little bit obsessive, well ALOT actually, to commit well over 100 years of life and scheming up all sorts of shit and keeping all those secrets for that time because you met a person you thought was a paragon for a few weeks, and then woke up and read a book about how cool they were.. is borderline insane.
 
G'raha's pretty inspiring, a little bit obsessive, well ALOT actually, to commit well over 100 years of life and scheming up all sorts of shit and keeping all those secrets for that time because you met a person you thought was a paragon for a few weeks, and then woke up and read a book about how cool they were.. is borderline insane.
shh I just wanted to make a joke about Minfilia's tits cause they were the only thing worthwhile about her (as of level 60 cause that is as far as I got)
 
how can I possibly equate this to Wuk and their desires and victories? they just come across as the WoL's and the Scions.
it's funny that there are people TO THIS DAY that will smugly state "we're not the main character" of the expac, despite the fact we basically dragged Wuk through the entire race.
G'raha's pretty inspiring, a little bit obsessive, well ALOT actually, to commit well over 100 years of life and scheming up all sorts of shit and keeping all those secrets for that time because you met a person you thought was a paragon for a few weeks, and then woke up and read a book about how cool they were.. is borderline insane.
G'raha is a bit a special case (and not in that way), considering the timeline he's from, the WoL and Scions died and basically had to wing the biggest hail mary pass in the universe and the only thing that kept him sane was the stories about the WoL that he read and were told about. Basically turned the WoL into a saint, then traveled back to the past and bring the WoL into the First.
Well when you are doing a MTG set and you have to choose between Tifa and Her for Titty representation..there is only one choice.
to be fair, it's not her tits BUT she (techincally) has a card.
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