Is Zodiark evil?

[ObsidianFire]

As near as we can tell, ALL CASES of light/dark imbalance have arisen due to Ascian influence.

This is not true, from what I've been able to find. Literally the first thing the WoD tell us when we meet them is this.

But not all worlds hold Light and Dark in equal measure. In ours, the power of Light was greater by far.

From everything we can tell, none of the worlds/Shards have a balance between Light and Dark. However, it seems this doesn't seem to be that big of a deal until the Ascians started messing with things to cause Rejoinings/Calamities. It seems causing Rejoinings needs lots of Darkness, and when Igyorum tried to set up the 13th Shard to be Rejoinined, she increased the amount of Darkness in the Shard too quickly. Similarly, the Flood of Light was ultimately caused because there was an Ascian Overlord messing with things on the 1st Shard and letting Ascians do whatever they want is never a good idea.

Ironically, the people the most concerned with balance between light and darkness are the Ascians. And that's because they seem to need to upset the balance towards Darkness in such a way that while it doesn't cause a Flood, there is more Darkness and Chaos since that's what leads to a Calamity. So the Ascians can't afford to tip things too much in one direction.

[YianKutku]

This is not true, from what I've been able to find. Literally the first thing the WoD tell us when we meet them is this.



From everything we can tell, none of the worlds/Shards have a balance between Light and Dark. However, it seems this doesn't seem to be that big of a deal until the Ascians started messing with things to cause Rejoinings/Calamities. It seems causing Rejoinings needs lots of Darkness, and when Igyorum tried to set up the 13th Shard to be Rejoinined, she increased the amount of Darkness in the Shard too quickly. Similarly, the Flood of Light was ultimately caused because there was an Ascian Overlord messing with things on the 1st Shard and letting Ascians do whatever they want is never a good idea.

Ironically, the people the most concerned with balance between light and darkness are the Ascians. And that's because they seem to need to upset the balance towards Darkness in such a way that while it doesn't cause a Flood, there is more Darkness and Chaos since that's what leads to a Calamity. So the Ascians can't afford to tip things too much in one direction.

Have the Ascians tried to, you know, not mess with Light vs Dark? At all?

[LineageRazor]

This is not true, from what I've been able to find. Literally the first thing the WoD tell us when we meet them is this.

That doesn't change the thrust of my argument, that doom is not inevitable. (And, in fact, by "imbalance", I meant upset of the natural state of Dark/Light balance, not to imply that the two are necessarily equal.) Left on their own, the worlds might be perfectly stable. The only ones that have gone boom are ones Ascians have been messing around on.