Emet-Selch Is Not That Tragic

[Lersayil]

Fair points in there, only addressing the ones I disagree with on some level.

Its also not about creation magic being bad, its about using it too much without giving back. And they are not perfect beings.

Nothing we know currently about creation magic implies that it had a price other than aether and a proper idea, blueprint or image for the thing you want to do (cant recall the specific word they used). It was stated that the Amaurotians supplied that aether in full from their own reserves.

(Also if you say that you dont count the bad time line because they were still doomed: Then why are we counting the ancient ones? They were only doing that sacrifice too when their world was doomed and they would have truly died anyway.

There is a bit of difference between the two. The future Source was effed. No matter what they did they had no way out, no way to save themselves. The Amaurotians did. They died so the rest of THEIR society would live on. The Exarch and company just tried to make something good from their already certain doom. Its to be applauded, but its an easier decision to make, than sacrificing 75% of your people willingly to buy the rest a future. Just imagine the uproar, arguments and public disrest if we as a race would have to result this. I imagine many volunteering for their loved ones, but 75% is a heavy number.

Would they? Hytho pointed out that it was the convocation (thus those tempered by Zodiark) that gave the idea of bringing back their lost ones after all was done by using the new life and this create such a big divide between their races for the first time ever. That does not sound like evey ancient one would have been for that. And what about those that sacrificed themselves? Would they be happy in being back (if they even can be back) while knowing that billions of life was destroyed for it? Including the split souls of their own people?

If true I agree with you. I would also think that they made the story a lot more boring with it.

For now we can only speculate, since we didn't get many specifics about that post-Zodiark pre-Hydaelyn period. If Zodiark turns out to be a bad guy that brainwashed the Amaurotians, or the post-Zodiark Amaurotians just turn out to be selfish bastards, it would majorly undermine the sympathy they we're trying to build towards them sofar.