Revelations from SHADOWBRINGERS

[Alleo]

It's a mercy, whether the present generation of mortals understand it or not, I would destroy them all in a heartbeat to save them and all future generations who would be born into a world of pain, conflict and death. The lives they cling to pale in significance to life in the perfect world they stand in the way of achieving. If I thought I could revert life to a garden of Eden type of utopia then I would find it extremely negligent to let anyone else be born into a fractured world of suffering.

If the mortal condition was but a choice, how many would opt to have a short lifespan, susceptibility to diseases and cancers, and the feebleness of age. People learn to cope with terrible fates because they think it is inevitable and beyond their control. If you don't sacrifice the people of the present, you condemn every future generation who will ever live to death by way of mortality so the death toll of your inaction is infinitely higher. The cycle of imperfect life can be ended, they think. I only agree with everything that I just said if it can be guaranteed that the utopia is lasting. If there's the slightest flaw in the plan which would undo the world as had happened before then yes the ascian objective is a shaky proposition.

But its not in your right to destroy billions of people. You might see it as mercy but I am sure that there are a lot of people in this world that even with hardship can enjoy their lifes, be happy for what they have. Also the Ascians are not perfect. How great would it be to destroy all life including children, in a horrible way (its not like you snap them out of existance...these people have to go through horrible calamities first..) only to find out that Zodiark cant bring those other people back? And it would only be those people. Not all the future generation that you just coldly killed off. Heck their own utopia was not meant to last..why do you believe they can do it now?

Our character and the scions do believe that a great future is possible. That by creating the path towards it, the future generations may walk in a world with less problems. Yes still with illness and death but more peaceful.

In the end you are blended by Emets vision of a perfect world with perfect people but just doing a handful of sidequests in Amaurot and reading the speech bubbles shows, that Emet has created a perfect paradies only in his head and that these people might not have been much different from us.

Also, about the Echo

Is it possible that the true source of the Echo is from the original Ascians? That it came to manifest with each calamity until the souls was close enough to manifest some of their original power. The Shade we met was able to read our soul and Arbert's and Echo is the power to transcend the limitations to read the souls of others.

About the echo:

Well seemingly in the old world everyone was an Ancient one so only "new" Ancient ones should have been born thus only them got their souls split. So in a way you could say that every single living being is a splitted ancient one? Shouldnt everyone on the source then have the echo, since the world was rejoined 7 times already? I think there might be more to the echo than that. Maybe its only for those that either summoned Zodiark or Hydaelyn in the past?