The Road to 5.0

[Alleo]

As for the desirability of a balance of darkness/light, it is obvious why it is a very real thing and desirable. The Void formed from an imbalance of Darkness gaining a foothold. This rendered the world ineligible for a rejoining and ultimately devastated it, starving it of aether. The world Arbert hails from suffers from an imbalance of Light, which is searing it, as he stated; he could not be clearer. Could this all be a lie? I doubt it, and Elidibus lays out his cards as to why the Ascians do not see a benefit in it. They very much do want their master to be restored to his full power but as a means of getting there, inundating worlds in darkness apparently does not work to their favour. Otherwise, why would Igeyorhm be punished for her actions and subordinated to Lahabrea?

The difference between a "not-so-good" and "great" WoL is how much aid Hydaelyn lends them and, secondarily, how they put it to use. Hydaelyn lent an awful lot of aid to our WoL, before they became "great", particularly in the Praetorium. That battle would've gone badly against us otherwise.

Hydaelyn only helped us against Ultima with a shield the rest was done with our power. And even with her weakened state afterwards (she could not even talk to us anymore, which shows that the balance is not tipped towards the light) we still were quite powerful on our own. Other than this one part, where did she truly really helped us?

My problem is still the understanding how you can create too much light. Did the WoD and the people in that shard just really defeat every single bad thing in the world and at the same time somehow no bad human existed either? How can you see that there is too much light? Is there a forewarning? Also why should we care about this if Hydaelyn can just swoop in and take the light back to her? I mean if Zodiark was free he could have probably got the Darkness back too. (But I do believe that he would not have done that because he seemingly does not care much for life)

It really would have been nice to get more informations from the WoD...maybe even a few echo visions of their battles and how their world looked right now. Maybe that would have helped me with a better understanding.