Revelations from SHADOWBRINGERS

[Alleo]

Well..........

A part of me suspect we may not be a member of the people who created Hydealyn but still was someone against the creation of Zodiark and probably also against Hydealyn summon as well due to also costing countless souls to create her.

If there is one thing we learn about the Original Soul of WoL is that he or she was still driven to do Heroic deeds no matter his or her reason behind the action which lead Emet to suddenly see a image of WoL's original self since at that moment WoL was very close to the Original Soul's personality.

I suspect WoL's original self wanted to prevent the Calamity without the need to sacrifice people to create Zodiark and Hydealyn but failed to do so because he or she could not find the source of the Calamity.

Still this opens up a higher Antagonist to the storyline once the Ascions and Zodiark are finally defeated, which is soon now since we have broken them down to only one leader now.

The only question is now what will happen to the world once the Ascions and Zodiark, and probably Hydealyn as well since her nature to be the counter to Zodiark may cost her life to defeat Zodiark, are all defeated and who is or are the beings that caused the Calamity in the Original World along with what is their goal for planning to destroy all life on the Planet.

Then there is the question about what may become of the remaining shards and the Source but my theory is that near the end we may find a way or events of Zodiakr and Hydealyn's defeat may cause all shards to fuse with the Source and create a new World without causing a Calamity.

About Hydaelyn, Zodiark and us:

Of course it can be completely possible that we had nothing to do with Hydaelyn. Or it could be that she did not need that huge amount of sacrifice and the WoL and some of her friends sacrificed themselves for her so that others can live on. This could also greatly explain why we are the WoL. But all of this is just speculation.

I am also not sure if the catastrophe was not created by the Ascians themselves. Ysthola did say that the magic or aether needed to create all of it must have been huge. Maybe they misused it too much and the planet was dying thanks to that, and all the stuff happens. While we ran through the destroyed city Emet does say that fear creates more of them so maybe the fear of going to be killed created more and more of those creatures making it even worse. So it could be that there is no higher new enemy. (And in a way the Ascians would truly not be much different then us, which Alphinaud also pointed out)

Was it stated in the story that Hydaelyn as the enemy to Zodiark is connected to him in such a way? I honestly cant remember such a scene so I am not sure why she would need to die if we kill Zodiark.

Also how would those shards be fused without massive loss of life? And do people even want it to be fused. They might be similiar but those shards still had their own history/culture/belief. Also that huge amount of people from a couple of shards suddenly being all on the source? Where should they live?

Of course all is possible but I still doubt that this game will end with the world being whole again. I do believe that the message they try to give to us is, that its worth living a not perfect life and that the worlds as they are right now are fine. As long as there is nothing cosmic that will destroy the reality or the worlds if they are not combined I see not reason to do that.