Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
During the sidequest about their views on nonconformity, the one you're first sent to talk to mentions that even the slightest distraction during the creation process can alter the results. They were creating robes, they noticed a group of children running by, and as a result they got a bunch of child-sized robes that they had to desynthesize. If an attempt at a large-scale concept went wrong and created a cacophony from underground, any ongoing creation within the entire city could be radically altered by fear, and that fear could spread like a pandemic.
Their magick is creation not alteration that's why that dude can't just change the clothes he just failed to create the way he saw it. The living creatures were also affected and being distorted. Their magic can't do that, ergo it was something else.

You all just seemed to want to pin the blame on them for I don't know what reason. ("The Ascians are the bad guys, of course the downfall of their civilization was of their own doing.")

The only wrong people I see in this story are the one that decided to summon Hydaelyn.
(And no, I don't think we are one of them. We are the 14th, but the same way we didn't want to summon Zodiark, we probably didn't want to summon Hydaelyn.)