The Road to 5.0

[Alleo]

It's also really vague. Just what IS Darkness? It's supposedly something different from simple "evil" and light is supposedly different from "good". All we really know is that they are forces in conflict - but who is on which side? All three examples we've seen of the "light" side have had humans on the side of Light (even the Warriors of Darkness were Light-aligned before they wound up doing too good a job and dooming their world), but that doesn't necessarily mean that non-humans are on the side of Dark.

It's probably the biggest evidence that I can see that Elidibus might be telling the truth when he implies that cosmology is all out of whack and needs to be "fixed" (even if doing so kills all existing life). It seems that the Ascians HAVE to meddle, because if they don't then worlds are lost to the Light.

If they really wanna say that Light is not good and Darkness is not bad maybe they should have not put the important characters into certain camps. I mean the WoL that fights for the Light does mostly good, the WoD did seemingly defeat too many bad people and on the other side the black Ascians are all 100% evil and some even laugh manically in a scene of destruction. The only one that talks about balance seemingly also does not want to tell us what is necessary to do that and seemingly would have let us be killed by the WoD..which should have tipped the balance quite towards the Dark. So I remain skeptic.

And as Hydaelyn showed, she seemingly is able to take in the Flood of Light if she has enough power and bring balance back to that shard. Why should we even then care about such a Flood? Just let her eat it, if something like that happens. (Or will we get the information that she will somehow blow up if she has too much light? x))

I fully expect at this point that Ascian meddling is the main reason the empire has acted the way it has.

I fear so too but honestly for once I just want this to be completely on the nation itself and not because some Ascian has said something into their ears..because humans are quite able to create conflict themselves and it would be nice if not every single larger conflict was done by Ascians..