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Zodiark is unreachable through conventional means. But then, a lot of calamitous events have come as a result of ancient magicks being tampered with by the Empire. Gabranth is of a mind to use Tartarus to penetrate the planet, but were Zenos to become aware of it (and he certainly might, as his legion originally laid waste to Dalmasca), he may set his sights on the Moon, where Zodiark is suggested to be imprisoned. Dalamud, while still an artificial Allagan satellite, was a celestial object in orbit around that same moon before a Bahamut-influenced Nael managed to bring it down. And the tool with which it ascended and acted in concert, the Crystal Tower, is very much present and plot-relevant now. Not to say that he's going to bring the Moon itself down, but the structure is a massive aetherial focus well-suited to the task ahead of him. This bit is pure speculation, but I'm of a mind that if Zenos intends to enter into some kind of union with Zodiark, he'll court him in much the same way that Bahamut courted Nael, seemingly immune or at least resistant to the tempering power of primals as the Resonant makes him. As to whether Zenos's "influence is much greater than" Zodiark's... well, I think that would be fairly generous to Zenos for the sake of the narrative they seem to be pushing him toward, but it seems like the more logical sequence of events to reach that end, given the information we now have to work with.


Or, more likely, this is just a major reach and they end up coming out of left field in tying it altogether.

I'm rooting for Gaius, but something tells me it's not going to go his way. If it does, it'll be because the path was cleared for him by someone who still has the power to block that path, and I don't know if he can conscience that.
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Zenos's exact words were that he intends for himself and the WoL to "Gorge upon their strength". Unlike Nael, I don't think he'd be content with becoming a slave to a creature of man's making.