The Warrior of Light is not tempered by Hydaelyn.

[Alleo]

Though the cave art mural has the idea that Zodiark was born first and Hydaelyn came into being and they shared the sea for a time gnawing away at me.

But is that really Zodiark? It could be the first one that went under a complete other name and then split into Zodiark and Hydaelyn and because Zodiark was black too like the first one, the Ascians believe that he is the one true god. Or its just all Ascian talk because they want to be in the right. For me at least it looks more like the god or primal was split into two different aspects of him/her.

[Anonymoose]

But is that really Zodiark? It could be the first one that went under a complete other name and then split into Zodiark and Hydaelyn and because Zodiark was black too like the first one, the Ascians believe that he is the one true god. Or its just all Ascian talk because they want to be in the right. For me at least it looks more like the god or primal was split into two different aspects of him/her.

That's another thing I considered, but it felt like the second-most-likely interpretation because the white one-halo and white two-halo entities look as similar as the black one-halo and black two-halo entities, and only Hydaelyn is ascendant now. It's slightly awkward to say this equally-dark-to-the-dark-one-halo-one entity is the combination one. I'd expect the union entity to be some kind of, pardon the pun, gray area between them.

[Alleo]

That's another thing I considered, but it felt like the second-most-likely interpretation because the white one-halo and white two-halo entities look as similar as the black one-halo and black two-halo entities, and only Hydaelyn is ascendant now. It's slightly awkward to say this equally-dark-to-the-dark-one-halo-one entity is the combination one. I'd expect the union entity to be some kind of, pardon the pun, gray area between them.

Hm for me its mostly because at the beginning (as far as Ramuh told us) there was no split Light and Darkness? (Please correct me if I remember it wrong) Thus why the first dark one with two halos could have been a combination of it. Then something happens and we suddenly have Light (Hydaelyn) and darkness (Zodiark) and then sometimes later Hydaelyn has achieved the power of the original god and banished Zodiark. I mean if Zodiark is the first one he should hold both sides, while Hydaelyn is only pure light? Thus the Ascians too should be able to keep balance by using both powers, yet seemingly they also only know Darkness.

Also I wonder how 100% correct the paintings are. Who did them? The side that prayed to the darker one? Wouldnt that than mean that they believe their side was the better of the two thus the one true god would have to be black too?