Quote Originally Posted by EdwinLi View Post
Don't forget the part that Elidibus never intended for our character to defeat Lahabrea and Emet-Selch.
Honestly it kind of feels like we're supposed to be deliberately not thinking about the details of the previous plotlines, because what Elidibus says in this MSQ doesn't really match what actually happened, if we take him at face value.

Like, Lahabrea died because he got outsmarted by Thordan, and it was presented as not a very high bar to clear. I don't know why Elidibus is pinning the blame for that on us. If anything, he should be mad at us for Nabriales, since that's directly our doing, and the wake-up call for Elidibus to warn Lahabrea about how we mortals can full-kill Ascians, sundered or otherwise.

I feel like Lahabrea is basically the exception that goes against the intended narrative, and thus calls the overall narrative into question. His death was not mourned, even among the Unsundered. He was stated to be especially weak from his body-hopping, to handwave why he was so easily defeated by Thordan (with the help of Nidhogg's eyes). He was fanatically devoted to Zodiark as the "true god". He contextualized the "sliver of Zodiark's powers" that is Ultima by using the Allagan Empire as an example, which not only was a recent development by Ascian standards, but was also explicitly stated in recent patches to be Emet-Selch's pet project.

Also he's the one Unsundered Ascian out of three that died screaming, rather than leave us with poignant words.

Most of it is explained Doylistically as Lahabrea being written before the devs really knew where to take the Ascian storyline in detail, ie the True Nature of Ascians and Zodiark. But in-universe, it kind of raises plenty of questions, including whether Lahabrea was simply completely nuts by the time we meet him, and so he was living in his own delusions.