#saltwalker

honestly, thinking about it, even without endwalker's messy retcons, the whole 'hydaelyn tempers wols' thing really, truly never had any real basis like. it's something that's only ever been inferable/has never been Directly Confirmed, especially wrt to thordan, but he and ysayle had to have had both the echo and the blessing of light, and while ysayle eventually managed a heel face turn i feel confident when i say that nothing thordan got up to would have earned him the crystal mom stamp of approval. and yet, like all people with the echo and blessing, he maintained his free will; indeed, it is the blessing that guaranteed his free will/freedom from tempering, which is. entertainingly ironic, ngl

(heavensward au where one of the knights of the round also has the echo and nopes the fuck out of there when they realise what thordan has planned for them)

still not a fan of wuk lamat's face. sorry babe.

don't love the lampshading of how similar their language is to eorzean. i guess it's a pre-emptive attempt to head off people complaing It'd Be Weird that everyone just happens to speak eorzean (see also: the exact same issue in norvrandt)

god damn npcs have a rescue you can't surecast your way out of how Dare

raha: since this is about ur nation's internal issues is this really the place for us foreigners to get invovled wuk: oh totally! my nation encourages foreign meddling in our internal affairs, it's part of our culture :3 me, internally: ben_affleck_smoking.jpg

somewhere between 'heh zero left an impact huh' and just. petition to make everyone who writes unfunny jokes about hot curries eat like. actual hot spiced dishes just because you motherfuckers. have no conception of how hot these things can actually get. like i guarantee you zero's preference for her spice level would also be fairly normal for certain dishes. but no!!!

don't love the sb thing where you can pick an 'actually this is a terrible idea pls do not railroad me into doing this' and then it railroads you anyway. don't give me meaningless dialogue options. actually worse than no dialogue options

this is the only mention or reference the whalaqee are going to get for the entireity of dt's lifecycle huh

raha: wol, take me on your next adventure! also raha: actually im going to stay home and be a bean counter like a good boy

yeah ik he's in the trailer and yeah i am Very Tired of his entire character being 'wol take me on your next adventure' but

STILL CAN'T ESCAPE THE EMET SPEECH. istg if they keep milking that in dt i'm going to. be salty about it.

honestly if emet and his buddies had any sense they would have done their schemes in all these places the wol never went