Breaking My Own Post Chronology To Go Back In Time To My First Week Or So In The Game, When I Encountered

Breaking my own post chronology to go back in time to my first week or so in the game, when I encountered Witchdrop for the first time and...... (predictably) died.

I already said it in another post, but I really like Hadès/Emet-selch and Venat/Hydealin. They both made choices and they lived by it. They didn’t excuse their own behaviors, or try to unmake what they did. They choose a path, and walked it to the bitter end. They are well written, and they are logical and coherent in their being, even if I disagree with their beliefs or morals. (But not Hermès. Fuck Hermès)

Again, I’m more aligned to Hydealin. An immortal race wouldn’t have been able to fight Météion. Their lifespans is too great, they change and learn too slowly. For immortals, especially immortals who lived in paradise, with little strife or hardships, the loss of one life is a great tragedy, one they should try to prevent, or even retrieve. For a mortal, it’s  fact of life. You can only live and go on. It’s partly why I believe ascians didn’t and couldn’t deal well with the loss of their world or lifes, and why a plan as stupid than Zodiark was hatched. (People, you guys would have destroyed yourselves with accelerated entropy, Météion would just have to swoop in when you bled yourself dry)

I also grew up on cautionary tales about immortality and unchanging. May you be eternal” is a curse for a reason, and only the fools believe it’s a blessing. Hadès is a prime example of it. Also, cycles are important. Everything run on them, and everything that rise will fall. We’re not better or worse, just different and suited to their environnement. I feel like for all the ascians preached about the natural cycle of Eitherys, they believed themselves above it. Which... is foolish. It’s the pistachio loukoum story. We walk on the bones and ruins of those that came before, as those that came after will on our.

Anyways, sorry for the disjointed ranting here. May have gone away from original topic.

If your friend who would have lived 100 years got divided into thirteen parrots who would only live 3 years, and you knew that by killing those parrots, you'd get your friend back, would you kill the parrots?

Or does the fact that the parrots, though their abilities cannot be compared to your own, are able to speak and reason and love in their own way mean they deserve to have their own lives, and you need to accept your friend is dead?

Your best friend? Your child? Your lover?

The friend who asked you to save them, before they vanished?

Your entire community? Your whole family?? What if there were only three humans left alive in the whole world, and you'd promised the rest that you would find a way to rescue them?

To me it's perhaps MORE impressive that Emet Selch and Elidibus ultimately side with the parrots.

Finished leveling my Reaper tonight and so.... Every battle class to 90! No more roulettes for me :D

We owe a house and an apartment but I spend so much more time in inns or camping out that we do still count asurder hobos. At the very least a vagabond (tramp).

I'm not sure we're rich. Between travel fee and equipment upgrade/upkeep, Taxes and aetherites taxes, we may be decent.

We're paid to the commission by and through the adventurers fees. So I'm guessing something like 10% of all our commission pay goes to the adventurers guild (or whatever guild we're currently working with/through). Depend how the combats/adventurers guilds are set up, and who take care of what, what are the administrative limits and lines between each others. We may have to pay a regular membership fees to the battle guilds, to still be a licencied whatever.

We're paid for our work in the Grand companies, and that's definitely a stable wage. But not a big one.

I doubt the scions are paid. It's more likely they have several profitable venture, like Tataru shops, and that they sell their expertise here and here. More of a shared communal pot were everyone pinching in. Pretty sure the grand company paid them as external advisors, expert. And still does actually, just in case they need an aetherical expert, master spy or primal slayer.

Serious question:

Do ya'll think the WoL is at least somewhat moderately wealthy as a direct result of being the Warrior of Light? Gameplay-wise, we receive currency for completing most quests, and five expansions worth of quests adds up to a few million gil, but do you consider that canon? And does it go directly to the WoL or to the Scions' coffers? Do you think the Scions receive some kind of salary?

Like yeah 9000 gil for a hair tie sounds outrageous, but the WoL probably makes that much brushing their teeth in the morning so is it really?