(Spoiler) About amaurots downfall

[QT_Melon]

There's absolutely nothing in the lore for us to know what the source is, but that reasoning is flawed: wherever the breaking point is you could always ask "Why not earlier?".

Well of course. But that isn't flawed logic. Murphy's Law if something that bad was going to go wrong, it should go wrong right away, otherwise they wouldn't have had to gone through all the trouble in their society if the discovery of their effects were detrimental.

Honestly sticking with "Creation Magics Gone Wild" sounds like a bad video late night TV infomercials are trying to sell you. I definitely want something more interesting than just that in storytelling.

[YianKutku]

Well of course. But that isn't flawed logic. Murphy's Law if something that bad was going to go wrong, it should go wrong right away, otherwise they wouldn't have had to gone through all the trouble in their society if the discovery of their effects were detrimental.

Honestly sticking with "Creation Magics Gone Wild" sounds like a bad video late night TV infomercials are trying to sell you. I definitely want something more interesting than just that in storytelling.

My own reading was that the fall of Amaurot was due to their complacency.

The problems with creation magicks occurred "across the sea", and we see Amaurotines kind of academically debate whether to go help them, or to leave them to their fate. The sheer blase nature of the Amaurotines makes me think that while this particular problem with creation magick had never happened before, other problems that might have been threatening did, and only just happened to be resolved before they went anywhere.

So it seems like the Amaurotines believed that this particular instance was just another hiccup in their everlasting paradise, until suddenly it wasn't, possibly due to snowballing too quickly to be contained. Interestingly, the Convocation apparently were desperate enough to summon Zodiark (and have dissenters leave to later summon Hydaelyn), so they took it seriously. Seriously enough to countenance sacrificing half of their entire race to fix whatever problems were happening "across the sea", while simultaneously keeping the true nature of the threat (and the price involved in solving it) obscured from the general populace.