Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
My own stance aside, the answer to that question is character defining by itself, and if the story goes with the narrative that the Ascains were wrong to do it, then in my view so was Graha (the opposite also applies naturally). He just had the benefit of being successful, being on our side, and conveniently achieving the effect with less suffering.
G’raha did what he did under different circumstances. The world 200 years in the bad future is one of constant war where Black Rose was way more successful than expected and most of the world’s population died and there’s no end in sight. Reversing that will save all the millions who died on The Source, save those who remained on The First, push back the clock on the Rejoining, and provide a proof of concept of taking the fight to the Ascians on the shards.

In regards to the other timeline, we have no idea how time travel works here and don’t know if the bad timeline gets overwritten. If it works anything like FFXI, both worlds co-exist until Atomos gets hungry but I guess that might be taken care of later.

Meanwhile, Emet-Selch has admitted himself that he’s tempered by a primal and at least to me it’s implied that Zodiark isn’t rejoining the worlds for the sake of the ascians so there’s no guarantee he’ll give his aether away to bring the world back. Say what you will about Hydaelyn but at least she hasn’t tempered us (according to the devs). Emet makes a compelling argument, but he isn’t necessarily doing what he thinks is right and his reasons for doing what he’s doing is compromised by the fact he’s controlled by his god.

The dev team themselves are surprised by how many people support the ascians which I think says enough about what’s planned for the future.