#between the Horde and the simple fact they cannot grow food anymore is *incredibly* uncertain? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tovaicas · 6 months

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also hate that the game potrays ishgardians pathologically denying what they're being told is somehow irredeemable.

my guys they're literally in the middle of a civil war, everyone's terrified for their lives bc the horde is still very much a threat, and the vault (which is the biggest social structure around) has peaced the fuck out by now. have some empathy, they're latching onto the one thing from their perspective they think is true.

#saint.txt #ishgardposting #spoilers #major spoilers #quoting a friend here but like.#how dare these utterly terrified people facing potential annihilation not think entirely rationally!#it's never seriously considered that the Ishgard we see in HW is Like That bc it's strained to the breaking point.#they lost ALL of coerthas. all of it. the holy see lost more to the calamity than literally anyone else. EVERYONE lost their homes.#What survives of the population has squeezed itself into a city that's simply too small for them #where the only remaining available consistent work in this hyper-martial society is the war bc *that's the only place they can go*.#and that was only five years ago. And now you're telling them the basis of their faith is a lie #and the war they've been fighting and lost loved ones to was started with blood on *their* hands?#a people who's future #between the Horde and the simple fact they cannot grow food anymore is *incredibly* uncertain?#as a friend puts it. who WOULDN'T believe that this is just aym.eric making a power play. it's simple. it makes sense.

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