Yeah. That's the mistake Blizzard made with WoW by making absolutely everything the Old Gods' fault, right down to low level monster races like kobolds secretly being an Old God plot. It went way too far and ruined the setting.

I like to think Square knows better that to follow that same pitfall. That they had every opportunity in HW to say "Ascians started the Dragonsong War" but actually didn't say that, it makes me think, it probably isn't Ascians this time.