Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
I dunno, I still don't buy that it's so much we've tipped the scales so hard in Hydaelyn's favor that we're breaking the balance. We're, what, six or seven calamities in, each of which a victory for Darkness, whereas the Light has had no such notable victories on that scale
The Darkness having "victories" is contingent on where the light has been standing. For example, if in each age, the Darkness was all but obliterated, it wouldve taken a catastrophic event to balance the scales. Or, if we've been sitting in a elongated 'light' age, that the current state of things is actually an attempt to return to normalcy. How much the "darkness is winning" is dependant on what the light is doing this whole time. Something we've not really seen to much of broadly. All we've been getting again and again is "Go and destroy the primals, defeat these things, and everythign will be golden". That same train of thought was was brought the Warriors of Darkness's world to ruin. On their world, they were the WoL, were defeating darkness, and the light ended up messing everything up.

And it is worth noticing that Hydaelyn isnt exactly the greatest thing ever. That she ended up possessing and killing someone (Minfillia) is worth noting, and if the rules primals follows are to be considered, Hydaelyn falls into that camp that even as a large crystal, she could be technically enslaving people too. Who is to say you have real free will yourself, as the WoL? Or that the fact that Zodiark is pretty much imprisoned at this time, yet Hydaelyn is not. Meaning, the light is free to do as it wills, while the dark is prevented. That would point to the scales being tipped well in favor of the light.

I think the ascians like Lahabrea were more of "Lets bring about our Dark Lord cause hes the coolest!", where Elidibus is probably along the more correct lines of neither side having supremacy and restoring a balance.