Gerun Oracles

[Fenral]

There's... grey area when a journey of self-discovery ends with unlocking inherited memories followed immediately by a dramatic, irreversible self-sacrifice (especially after he was that down on himself for being useless). It's OK I guess that you don't see it that way, but if you do (and I'm not "incorrect" on this; it's in the text), it's kind of disgusting and unforgivable. There was also grey area with the tower itself that I don't need to get into. Again, it's right there in the text. I apologize for bringing it up again.

Point is: there's a lot of moral grey area written into the setting and conflict that tends to just get ignored entirely when it's time to wrap things up. Just kinda makes me wonder why it's there in the first place if the writers really want to handle everything as black-and-white.

Eternal world peace, no. But isn't every Final Fantasy about putting an end to a cycle and/or force that denies mankind control of its own destiny?

Coin toss if that power is Zodiark or Hydaelyn. For me, I think what separates the Ascians from the Occuria is that the primary antagonist of XII is a human acting of his own free will and backed by an Occuria that has gone rogue. The Occuria themselves are too big to ever be dealt with.

Granted, that rogue element could very well be Lahabrea, but so long as seemingly all the major problems in the world end up traced back to Ascian instigation, it kind of sends the message that the evils plaguing humanity are external, even without meaning to.