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Some person you've never met face-to-face was wrong. Setting them straight is important, dammit! XD
Of course it was! Still is! Eugenics and Nazis were brought up... man it was a mess.

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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
I've played both Symphonia games as well, and it's again not dissimilar. The difference is in the Dark Souls-verse the very existence of Light and Dark are an inherent part of Man's very existence, not a result of Man's actions. The cycle of Light and Dark is literally unbreakable, as the soul and the cycle are one and the same.

I think it's similar in XIV. Hydaelyn could very well be the collective consciousness of the Spoken races, the source of Spoken souls and what they return to upon death.

Quote Originally Posted by Hydaelyn
I am Hydaelyn, all made one.
But some fragment of Dark, some piece of Zodiark, separates us from her and grants us independent existence.

Quote Originally Posted by Lahabrea
The Light! It binds them! They are too many!
Light binds; Dark separates. Without both we cannot exist. It doesn't have the idealistic tone the story seems to have (except the 2.5.X story content), though...

That would change my hypothesis from Man being responsible for Hydaelyn's creation to vice versa, but I didn't discount that possibility as well. We are "Children of the Land," after all.