Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Well they have just created something that was able to rewrite the laws of existance and saved a death planet. Maybe they thought that he simply could do everything. Being struck by grief might have helped to form that view.

Or since they are tempered it was something Zodiark told them and they just believed him. If he in any form as some form of will it could be that he liked getting energy and thus "promised" them to give them back if they get him something else for it. Maybe he would have brought them back in the form of soulless bodies or maybe he never planned to. I am looking forward to future information on how much Zodiark and Hydealyn have their own agenda.
Seeing as how they created him, chances are they have a pretty good idea of what Zodiark is capable. It was Creation on a grand scale, but it was still Creation - and Creation is something the Ancients had down to a science. I believe that even the Tempering is something they built in on purpose, to give Zodiark the ability to restrain the out-of-control Creation that was going on.

I don't think it was anything like, "Let's create a god, and then ask it what it can do!" any more than software engineers program a computer and ask it what it can do. They know exactly what the computer can do - they programmed it!

As for whether Hy and Zo have free will... Well, maybe. Ever since their origins were revealed, I've had my doubts. If they do have free will, it's probably something along the lines of, "you can do whatever you want, so long as you also fulfill the task for which you were created."