let me add to this too because i obviously don’t have anyone i can rant this to really
By this point it’s like the milletian needs time to themselves to properly cool down between events; not that they’ll really be allowed to, since one thing comes up after the other.
Duncan himself seemed sorry for them by the end of it, since after all, what was meant to just be a fun festival turned into yet another quest to save the world. He wanted them to enjoy themselves, for once, but no, of course they wouldn’t be allowed to. It’s just the start of yet another quest, picking up the fights where they were left to, with some new faces in-between. Business as usual.
And then Tani comes in the picture? This milletian, that they do share things with, some bits of familiarity? Some nostalgia? Nope. Because somehow, some way, Tani represents ‘the other milletians’.
Depending on the prompts you can choose from (re: the death conversation ‘how do you feel about the fomors you've killed’ aka ‘it depends’/don’t care/... , and Eirawen’s ‘what do you think of recent events’; protect/defeat/uncover the plot) it comes to light that the Milletian is just.... unique.
They don’t belong anywhere. Just like Cichol mentioned, they are an outsider to Erinn; and nothing so far seems to prove the opposite. Everyone they come to know and share bonds with eventually leave. They’re estranged from everything, even their own race and origins. Everyone they knew by then chose to distance themselves (The divine knights, and arguably the aces but they’re just ‘around’...), became somehow unreachable, (Tarlach not being himself anymore, Milia in her coma, whatever happenned to Jenna and Leymore) or just plain outright died. (Elatha, Cai, and Ruairi).
So the moment new faces come up, of course they’ll want to reach out. Of course they’ll want to, maybe, get some semblance of normalcy, beyond the whole ‘savior of erinn’ schnazz. To forge new bonds, to begin from scratch again. To find a place where they can finally belong. Trying to accept others that ally with them, depending on your personal take on it. And yes, even Vayne’s weird... rivalry/interest is welcome by then.
The milletian just feels... so lonely overall. Nothing really anchors them down beyond fighting for others’s sake. The whole concept of ‘Briogh’ means to push beyond one’s limits. And as more and more techniques using Briogh are learned by the milletian, seemingly linear to their findings of the Black moon’s plans, the more one can wonder just how long they can keep pushing themselves before something happens... Future content doesn’t seem like they’ll catch a break anytime soon, either.
Hopefully they have people to lean onto offscreen because having to bear stuff this heavy over so long is far from being healthy.
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