Is It Even Still Possible (The Rejoining)

[Lusavari]

I think that the Ascians could have found a way to eventually fix the Void.

The real question is - after all 13 shards had been rejoined to the Source - would Zodiark have been able to actually resurrect the Ancient Amaurotines who sacrificed themselves for him? The Convocation were tempered, and according to one interpretation of the pink crystal "this power feels so right", they may have been tempered immediately upon summoning him. Aside from Hydaelyn and Phoenix, almost every Primal we've come across is motivated towards self preservation first, and the safety of their people second. It could be that Zodiark just told the Convocation what they wanted to hear. I have no doubt that a being as powerful as a 14/14 Zodiark fueled by thousands of Ancient 14/14 souls would be capable of creating beings in the likeness of the Ancients, but would it actually be them? We haven't seen any examples of true, "yes really" legit resurrection of the Soul in FFXIV.

Maybe it might be like a Fullmetal Alchemist thing, were once Zodiark is defeated, all of the souls he contained may finally go to Heaven/return to the Lifestream. Perhaps they might reincarnate one day. But I find it hard to believe that Emet and Elidibus would have ever actually gotten their friends back for real.

An interesting point and I would support your point by pointing at Lakshmi. When Lakshmi resurrected the daughter of the leader of the Qualyana, she didn't bring her back in her original state. She was nothing but a puppet. She was "alive" again but she wasn't "there." Even now she persists only to state the direct desires of Lakshmi. Even if the Ancients were restored, they wouldn't be the people the Ascians want back. They would be nothing more than echoes. Also, I would argue Shiva also isn't out to temper because all of her incarnations have been someone with the Echo evoking her powers. But the echo itself is arguably proof we are tempered by Hydaelyn. Our goal is to preserve her. There's argument as to how much of our fight is because we're her one of her tempered. We think we're cognizant and functional, but how much of that comes from Hydaelyn? That also hearkens back to a plot point many of us forget, and that's when Midgardsormr stripped us of the blessing, something he'd made a pact with Hydaelyn to do. Sure we recovered it, but at this point, The Scions have known better than to blindly trust Hydealyn since Minfillia became The Word of the Mother. What Emet Selch and Elidibus have taught us have served only to further our own distrust of what Hydaelyn ISN'T telling us, because we know she's keeping something secret.