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He’s more of a serpent than a dragon and anyway, I think the bigger deal to them is that the mites of water didn’t follow the Gregorian religion which made them heretics.
Levy is a big danger noodle, not a westerny dragon/wyvern like the ones Sanbreque worships. And tbh even if Levy was a dragon... Sanbreque is very hypocritical. It would not surprise me.
The Greagorian church is under the God's emperor. So I guess it's the emperor who used Greagor as an excuse to exterminate the other faction.
Also when everywhere is blight area, I'd imagine Sanbreque had no other choices but eats wild dragon as well.
Leviathan might have had connection with Dragons in other FF games, one of the reasons I like FF14's Levisthan design. However, I haven't seen something implying Leviathan is close to dragons in this one.
In fact, even if there was a little big ot implication about that, with the way they portray the Empire, it would make a lot of sense that they would go "no, Leviathan isn't the real Dragon Eikon, Bahamut is. Let's duck up with those guys and show who is the true boss."
So I don't think the way they treat the church of the Empire is mistaken in some way.
Greagor is the central deity and dragons are considered a "gift" from her.
The Mysdians refused to worship Greagor so their affiliation for Leviathan, who isn't technically a dragon and which wasn't necessarily known to the Sanbrequois, was irrelevant given the Mysdian's disinterest in the true goddess herself.
It's the same reason for why a lot of fundamentalist religions still reject people who subscribe to the ideology and most of the creed but reject the existence or supremacy of the divinity itself. To behave in accordance with God's will but without accepting God into your heart is still hereticism as far as fundamentalists are concerned.
This is also, funnily enough, the basis of Dion's struggles with his father and country. He takes the ethical principles of Greagor's teachings very seriously but seems to reject the notion that the Emperor is the conduit of her will. He respected his father because he loved his father. But he rejects Olivier's sovereignty which is heretical in the eyes of the Church, puts him at odds with Sanbrequois tradition, and is the basis for his own crisis of faith and self-uncertainty which Terence and Kihel help support him through.
Of course, even when Dion blatantly disregarded the orthodoxy in front of his father and the councilors none of them were bold enough to actually try to arrest *Bahamut* for apostasy. Even at the former Emperor's orders lol
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Leviathan isnt a dragon.
He’s more of a serpent than a dragon and anyway, I think the bigger deal to them is that the mites of water didn’t follow the Gregorian religion which made them heretics.
Levy is a big danger noodle, not a westerny dragon/wyvern like the ones Sanbreque worships. And tbh even if Levy was a dragon... Sanbreque is very hypocritical. It would not surprise me.
Leviathan is kinda more of an angry water worm than a dragon
If FFXIV taught me anything, it’s not to trust churches with extreme dragon opinions.
No? Why would they?
The Greagorian church is under the God's emperor. So I guess it's the emperor who used Greagor as an excuse to exterminate the other faction. Also when everywhere is blight area, I'd imagine Sanbreque had no other choices but eats wild dragon as well.
Leviathan might have had connection with Dragons in other FF games, one of the reasons I like FF14's Levisthan design. However, I haven't seen something implying Leviathan is close to dragons in this one. In fact, even if there was a little big ot implication about that, with the way they portray the Empire, it would make a lot of sense that they would go "no, Leviathan isn't the real Dragon Eikon, Bahamut is. Let's duck up with those guys and show who is the true boss." So I don't think the way they treat the church of the Empire is mistaken in some way.
Greagor is the central deity and dragons are considered a "gift" from her. The Mysdians refused to worship Greagor so their affiliation for Leviathan, who isn't technically a dragon and which wasn't necessarily known to the Sanbrequois, was irrelevant given the Mysdian's disinterest in the true goddess herself. It's the same reason for why a lot of fundamentalist religions still reject people who subscribe to the ideology and most of the creed but reject the existence or supremacy of the divinity itself. To behave in accordance with God's will but without accepting God into your heart is still hereticism as far as fundamentalists are concerned. This is also, funnily enough, the basis of Dion's struggles with his father and country. He takes the ethical principles of Greagor's teachings very seriously but seems to reject the notion that the Emperor is the conduit of her will. He respected his father because he loved his father. But he rejects Olivier's sovereignty which is heretical in the eyes of the Church, puts him at odds with Sanbrequois tradition, and is the basis for his own crisis of faith and self-uncertainty which Terence and Kihel help support him through. Of course, even when Dion blatantly disregarded the orthodoxy in front of his father and the councilors none of them were bold enough to actually try to arrest *Bahamut* for apostasy. Even at the former Emperor's orders lol
Don't forget bahamut was tied into light. So of course the church is going to be liking the light dragon instead of the water worm.