Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Maybe, maybe not. Zodiark himself is not malevolent; if anything he's benign, the problem with him having been that the Ascians wanted commit genocide / omnicide times over in order to resurrect the dead. Now that the Unsundered are gone, and the sole known active Ascian apparently isn't interested in bringing back Amaurot, letting Zodiark off his chains might be permissible if he doesn't interfere with the material plane... and Zenos weren't interested in devouring him for power.

What gives me apocalypse vibes going forward is the last boss of Amaurot: Therion, the "Chthonic Riddle." Therion is another moniker for the Beast of Revelation from the Bible's Book of the same name; the connection draws itself.
There is too Therion's boss epithet: "Chthonic" comes from Greek root meaning "of the earth / land". So the title could be loosely translated as "Therion, Riddle of the Land". We see several Therions gleefully spaming laser beams just before getting to the fight with the Terminus Bellweather (the second boss) so apparently there were more than one, but seemingly they were the worse of the Terminus monstrosities. Their epithet directly connects them with the Sound emanating from the land or beneath it.