[spoilers]3.2 MSQ Discussion/Reaction thread

[Nalien]

Is the Blessing constantly draining Hydaelyn? I figured she spent some power to give us the Crystals (given Matoya's Crystal Eye is a Crystal of Light from a bygone era...) and we just harness that power. She gave us a lump sum of power up front, and we tap into that, rather than draining her constantly. Whether regaining the Blessing required new Crystals or was just us rediscovering our old ones follow Middy blocking them is up for debate, I guess.

Come to think of it... Is Hydaelyn perhaps just a really big Crystal of Light? The Mother Crystal, I mean... The Word of the Mother did say the Crystals power is spent... So the Mother Crystal is done now? This is why I'm having a hard time viewing Hydaelyn in a bad light... She is seemingly powerless at this point... After shielding us from Ultima (such and evil thing to do!) she helped us save Thancred by giving us a Blade of Light, she saved Krile, told Minfilia to run back so she could hijack Flow, and explained some stuff to us before finally running out of power and sending us back as her final act... I mean sure, sacrificing Minfilia isn't nice, but it seems more like an act of desperation to me... How the Scions react is questionable, but I can hardly fault Hydaelyn for that, and I can hardly complain at Hydaelyn sacrificing one person, when Ascians have a body count beyond counting... The alternative was to quietly fizzle out and let Elidibus have free reign to corrupt us, at least now we can have two accounts of things...