"Well," Cid begins. It's complicated, for one. Even before he gets into how close Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch obviously are. "The Garlean Empire was known to be extremely brutal from the moment of its creation. Emperor Solus, that is to say Emet-Selch, ordered my father as Chief Engineer to look into harnessing the power inside of the lesser moon of Dalamud. Unknown to all but Emet-Selch, a primal had been locked inside of Dalamud. When the transmitter made contact with the primal, it triggered the destruction of an entire nation, and was covered up as an accident."

He sighs, cheerful mood rather quashed from the subject. "As a Garlean, my opinions on him are... complicated."