[spoilers]3.2 MSQ Discussion/Reaction thread

[Nalien]

She could have speak to us at any time but she didn't.

Didn't the Word of the Mother specifically mention how Hydaelyn had grown so weak that she couldn't really communicate with us anymore? The whole thing felt like it was staged to get us to directly seek out Hydaelyn after Ultima had weakened her. She directly intervened at Val to save Krile, since Krile had the knowledge to figure half this stuff out. Sent Minfilia back to get sucked up in Y'shtola's Flow so Minfilia could brought before her, knowing full well that we'd eventually try to find Minfilia and find our way there.

Not that effectively sacrificing Minifilia is a good thing, but what other options were there? It was sacrifice Minfilia, or let her (and thus the Scions) bumble around in the dark unable to even hear Hydaelyn anymore... Not that 3.2 has really changed any of that... We got an abridged cosmic-history lesson and she cut off before the most important part... Guess we can just go question old Middy for the rest... I'm not really left questioning her goals though, just her methods... I might wonder why she didn't just tell us all this back when she was powerful enough to do so (like at the start of the game...), but by her own account she has failed to prevent the Rejoining several times before... I can imagine a situation where one group of Warriors of Light got the whole info dump at the start of their quest, and it eventually panned out badly, so Hydaelyn refrained from telling us too much at once...

Actually, my money is on exactly that having happened... Perfect back story for the Warriors of Darkness, really...

I mean when it really comes down to it... Hydaelyn doesn't come across as the cosmic good guy... She banished Zodiark to the moon (just once, can a moon just be a moon?) and messed up reality in the process... Would be kind of hard to sell that as a good thing, were it not for the fact that we're essentially a product of that... It would be like "aliens" visiting us and going "Hey, sorry to bother you, but your universe was meant to be a single dense mass, everything after the Big Bang was a mistake... We need to rejoin it, you understand right?", I mean sure I'd understand, but like hell would I just bend over and let existence as I know it end...