The Rejoining (Spoilers for EVERYTHING up to 2.55, welcome to Lore)

[Fenral]

OK, now that the debate over Au Ra evolutionary patterns has largely been settled (or at least conceded), I can get into the important shit.

Some person you've never met face-to-face was wrong. Setting them straight is important, dammit! XD

This reminds me actually... There was a scientist we escort around to read ambient aether levels in 2.5. On the surface it seems like it's just a plot device to have us find Wilred's body at Urth's Fount but the actual discovery of the body completely overshadowed the scientist's discovery. Didn't he start panicking when he realised just how low the aether levels were? The subsequent events kind of distracted everyone from that little scene and few people seem to have picked up on it.

I think there are a lot of plotlines that certainly pretend like we've totally wrapped them up neatly with a bow and have no need to address them again, but... Yeah, there's definitely more going on there. How it all fits into the puzzle is the million dollar question.

Incidentally, I find this to be a likely possibility as well. I'm basing my ideas on the Dark Souls games, but it follows a similar axiom; two forces in constant struggle, Flame / light and Dark. When the Flame splutters and fades, Dark rises, but inevitably someone reignites the Flame and pushes the Dark back.

Either way, point is the separation of Light and Dark is tied to Man's existence, so without a universal paradigm shift or finding a way to break the cycle, we'll always be in conflict with the Ascians and Zodiark.

See, what was a little different with Symphonia was the point that because the cycle the world is in was, in fact, created by man to begin with, it was not wrong for man to rewrite the universe again to change it. Granted, Symphonia (being, in part, a critique of Final Fantasy X) was about an 11 on the idealistic scale, and ended by deciding a (pretty far-off) goal to be worked for but not outlining how to get there. Then the sequel went pretty dark places by asking "what did you think was going to happen when you rejoined the worlds, really? Instant world peace?"

We seem to be moving season-by-season through various plotlines, so even if we do complete/thwart the Rejoining at some point, what comes after could still have its own share of problems to deal with