[Spoilers] I’m irrevocably Unimpressed

[Gwenorai]

Yeah that confuses me a bit too...

...unless you interpret it to mean living creatures on the star - plants, animals, maybe even people. The way Hythlodaeus says that Hydaelyn's summoners believed the world should "belong to the lives newly born" is a little unsettling in its implications. It feels like he's saying the plan was to sacrifice those newly born lives - though maybe I'm just reading into it that way.

There's definitely more to this story, and definitely things we don't know. I honestly can't wait to see what else they might tell us about this.

I like characters, big juicy characters...

But even then the living creatures on the star would be a part of him. When folks die now they return to Hydaelyn in the lifestream. So if, he was the 'daddy' crystal at that time then everything would be tied to him thy the lifestream. Those lives are already entwined with him - their aether is his aether. Unless it meant that by killing a portion of the life their aether would return to Zodiark, he would 'supposedly' use it to bring back those dead ascians... and thus weaken him further because each ascian has immense aether and can constantly create. It just seems so very confusing!

I look forward to see how this went about and how they could even think it was okay to even consider. I want to hear Zodiark and hear his 'thoughts' on this.

[SturmChurro]

I like characters, big juicy characters...

But even then the living creatures on the star would be a part of him. When folks die now they return to Hydaelyn in the lifestream. So if, he was the 'daddy' crystal at that time then everything would be tied to him thy the lifestream. Those lives are already entwined with him - their aether is his aether. Unless it meant that by killing a portion of the life their aether would return to Zodiark, he would 'supposedly' use it to bring back those dead ascians... and thus weaken him further because each ascian has immense aether and can constantly create. It just seems so very confusing!

I look forward to see how this went about and how they could even think it was okay to even consider. I want to hear Zodiark and hear his 'thoughts' on this.

All these emotions

For sure. I hope we get to have an actual conversation with Zodiark! I feel like Zenos is going to try to steal, or utilize his power somehow so he can duel you. That's at least what I got from the very end from zenos's dialogue.

[Gwenorai]

All these emotions

For sure. I hope we get to have an actual conversation with Zodiark! I feel like Zenos is going to try to steal, or utilize his power somehow so he can duel you. That's at least what I got from the very end from zenos's dialogue.

10/10char pls

Yes, this is what I thought! It does make me wonder if this happens then how much energy would Zodiark have left? Enough to maybe bring life back to the first and reverse the damage done?

[Avidria]

I like characters, big juicy characters...

But even then the living creatures on the star would be a part of him. When folks die now they return to Hydaelyn in the lifestream. So if, he was the 'daddy' crystal at that time then everything would be tied to him thy the lifestream. Those lives are already entwined with him - their aether is his aether. Unless it meant that by killing a portion of the life their aether would return to Zodiark, he would 'supposedly' use it to bring back those dead ascians... and thus weaken him further because each ascian has immense aether and can constantly create. It just seems so very confusing!

I look forward to see how this went about and how they could even think it was okay to even consider. I want to hear Zodiark and hear his 'thoughts' on this.

Hmmm...

There's got to be something more to it... that life was created in the first place by sacrificing Amaurotine lives, so maybe it's some kind of equivalent exchange? When there's enough life on the planet to be an equal trade for the Amaurotines who sacrificed themselves without wrecking the planet, maybe then it would work? Hythlodaeus did say they'd do it "when the time was right," but didn't really elaborate on what that would actually mean.