It is still absolutely wild to me that Sharlayan gets the pass it does in the narrative. Especially when like, their obvious narrative counterpart would be Garlemald.
Everyone is welcome as long as you abandon your home culture and become Sharlayan
Only certain families are allowed to live in the estates, the ones who can trace back to the First Landing after the calamity.
Fully planned on leaving most of the world behind when the Final Days hit early. The only people they bothered to help was Thavnair and that was AFTER the Scions yelled at them for their inaction
Regularly sent death squads after people who took Sharlayan knowledge out of Sharlayan and taught it to people. Not state secrets. Regular ass scholarly knowledge. People died over Ishguard learning how to be Astrologians.
Covered up wildly unethical experiments that were on the level of Garlean Human Experimentation and refused to investigate or take reports seriously until the WOL got involved.
Why the hell are they the good guys? Why are they the ones who the narrative treats as "Doing the right thing"? Why does Sharlayan get to have a pass about their failings as a society and we're expected to just ignore everything they did. Like if you have a lvl 80 AST during the 6.0 MSQ there's no extra dialog for you in Sharlayan. But because they're isolationists it's fine don't worry about it you won't find the bodies :)
