Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Unfortunately, the answer given does NOT allow us to discard the possibility that the big H is chowing down. People in Eorzea don't seem to think she is, and those that know about her seem to hold her in high regard, but it also notes that they don't know WHAT is happening, exactly - just that "something" breaks, then "things" go crazy, then healing "happens". That's a whole lotta vagueness, and that last bit is disturbingly unclear as to just HOW healing happens. It leaves plenty of room for a planet-munching scenario! Especially so, given that later in the same article it's noted that what the people believe may not be what's actually going on; they think Hydaelyn is great now, but maybe they don't know the whole story...
One of the things FFXIV has been fairly good at so far is foreshadowing things before they happen. It is very, very rare that we don't get a heads-up that something fishy is going on with a situation before our characters find out about it. In fact, it's been confirmed by Youshida that he likes more foreshadowing of what is going to happen, rather then less.

Hydaelyn being being evil or lying to us is something that has basically no foreshadowing. At least, creditable foreshadowing. We don't seen any of the scholars on our side putting forth theories that are based on us not knowing enough about Hydaelyn. We don't even have neutral parties suggesting that. Heck, not even Elidibus has suggesting Hydaelyn isn't what she seems. The only people suggesting Hydaelyn isn't telling the truth about something are our enemies. Who are trying really hard to create more chaos then we can fix. There's yet to be anything to suggest they aren't just trying to confuse us.

I'd feel a lot differently about the possibility of Hydaelyn being anything other then benevolent if it was something we'd been getting hints about for a long time. Only we haven't. In fact, the biggest evidence for Hydaelyn not being benevolent is that we're in the middle of the story and we haven't had everything about her explained to us.