Revelations from SHADOWBRINGERS

[MrThinker]

I understand where you are coming from, but again I believe that grievance would be the most appropriately directed at solely G'raha and the future Ironworks (and maybe Urianger since he was brought into the plan), since they were aware that those lives in the future had already existed. Not so for our character and the other Scions, who only thought of it as a prophecy of what may be, rather than cold hard fact until they reached a point of no return.

At the same time, the short story only deals with the time period following the calamity during which Cid was still alive. At that point, it would have been reasonable to believe that even with the state of the world as it was, it would have been possible to recover, which in turn was why Cid and Nero left the theory as a 'gift' rather than an edict for the Ironworks, but the situation (dead land, poisonous crops, total state of anarchy) does not seem to have improved even after 2 centuries have passed, and seemed extremely unlikely to improve.

If there was no way to reverse the effects of Black Rose on the environment, then I believe the Ironworks had reasonable grounds to think "welp, we are doomed and there's nothing we can do to stop that, but perhaps we can make a miracle to prevent this from ever happening". At the same time we have no idea how long Umbral Eras usually last, because we dont really have a complete timeline. We only know that the 7th Umbral Era was 5 years, and that the 8th was still ongoing more than 2 centuries afterwards, so we can't really give a reasonable assumption on whether or not the Ironworks were premature on their plan and should have waited longer to see if the world recovered.

The difference with Emet and the ascians situation, is that life was still thriving after the sundering. Yes, in altered form they were not familiar with, but thriving nonetheless. This does not seem to be the case with the 8th Umbral Calamity.