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what she means: the heavens' ward were terribly wasted as characters and it's sad that most people can only name like two or three of them due to the way they were used (and not used). it sucks that their varied personalities don't get to shine in-game and fans only learned more about them through little scraps of info from various sources, most of which are not in-game. were they originally meant to feature more in the story and in-game? were we supposed to have met more of them before the vault? the worst part is that everyone just regards all twelve of them as pure evil (especially ser zephirin) when their profiles indicate the opposite. they were simply twelve of ishgard's most brilliant and skilled warriors doing what they believed was right in accordance with ishgardian law because they were lied to as much as the rest of ishgard. they were also possibly and inferably tempered and honestly at that point the war was supposed to be over and thordan vii still carried out his plan so he pretty much destroyed the souls of these twelve men for seemingly no good reason beyond his ambitions. and of course, as we move forward in expansions and away from ishgard, the less and less they'll hold significance as characters and are more and more likely to be forgotten by the playerbase except for when they get the vault or singularity reactor in roulettes and honestly for the group of characters whose name was literally the expansion's title, that's really fucking sad and awful