like most of the conflict in it comes from internal pressures and the political conflict between the royalist and monetarist, not Those Wily Beast Tribes
also the ul'dah starting msq is actually pretty tightly plotted, everything does end up coming back around to the same thing in the end while the limsa story felt a lot more disconnected imo
i think this is a really valid thing to do, to just give unrelated things the same name or tie them together based on the absolute vaguest similarities
tai had absolutely no clue what anyone was saying and was extremely freaking out over being stuck in a foreign land without knowing the language until hydaelyn bonked her on the head with that first vision and gave her the echo
she assumed it was, like, some natural blessing all eorzeans got because of the crystal and it didn't really click what was going on until minfilia actually explained what the echo does
woke: at least one is trans
bespoke: both of them are trans