Sure Sena, it's totally the screaming.
Emo bird?
I have to ask.
Because Garuda and Suzaku both fit the description, and possibly that Valigarmanda thing too (which was a humongous letdown, if I'm being perfectly honest).
Which one is it?
Also, yes, Scions being very much a kindergarten led by a schoolteacher is a very apt criticism and that point was the one I liked about the last two chapters of ARR (5 and 6).
But apart from Minfillia being a very, very toothless leader and a strategic incompetent (or so she seems in retrospect) the Scions worked.
Minfillia's indecision, however, has let Alphinaud take the scene and screw things up to such an extreme degree we had to to spend two whole expansions restoring a seblance of status quo.
Oh well.
I'm rambling again.
So back to the question, which bird?
UPD: 30 seconds after writing this I have found this to be Meteion. And honestly I made no connection.
And honestly yeah, EW works on emotions alone and little to no logic, and honestly it's a decent approach to wrapping up the whole thing, because an unstable construct is a very, very solid doomsday device.
It's the hatred her maker had for his own kind's callousness that feels underexplored somehow, and undervalued.
But if you look at it not from the PoV of a myth arc but of a story, actually delving into the depths of the final days, actually seeing what led to them, is a logical way to find roots in a world where you sort of kill the only two people who actually have a clue to what's happened prior to your investigation.
It's actually a more entertaining way of revealing the plot than just Hydaelin plot-dumping it, which would've made more sense.
Though now I think of it, I'd have probably used the Echo, which would've been vastly strengthened post-ShB for obvious reasons. Of course, this is retrospective - no idea what I'd actually have done in the writers' stead.
Yoshi-P has made it clear that he's not caving to the people calling for Wuk Lamat to be removed from the story or for Sena Bryer to be replaced. You guys should give the hate train a rest. It's embarrassing.