6.0 Predictions: Will it be Garlemald, Sharlayan, or Meracydia?

[Veloran]

Remember the alternate timeline with a successful 8th Calamity in which this did not happen.

Regardless, Zodiark on the Source is 8/14 so speaking from a pure total aether point, he is indeed the more enticing option than Hydaelyn.

But Hydaelyn is 14/14...? Not to mention her power to sunder things is, frankly, more thematically appropriate to Zenos than anything else.