Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Case and point: after clearing the Amaurot dungeon, which he (re)created specifically as a test of the Scions' "worthiness," he just says their performance was lacking and they haven't convinced him. Assuming the star was as imperiled as during the Final Days and half of the population did offer their lives up in sacrifice, he'd just say something like "Yeah, but you didn't do it quick enough, so you're still not as good as we Ancients were." (Apocalyptic as Endwalker may look, I seriously doubt it's going to get quite as bad as what happened to Amaurot.)
Yes this was one of the scenes that were quite telling. He gives us a test and we pass it, so because he has never truly intended for us to win he needed to move the goalpost.

Honestly for me it was always a bit strange how these powerful Ancient run away from their enemies, be it in this dungeon or later the one were some beasts got out of control. All we see is them running away in sheer panic. Everytime I run through them I wonder why? Arent the people from Amaurot the best? Yet here we are, uncomplete souls taking on the monster that they captures but seemingly cant defeat?

I am not sure if this what the devs were going for but for me these people felt so weak after these dungeons.

And it is also telling that one of the short stories show that the Ancients did not care that much about other regions. It was only Azem that went there to help so that nobody lost their homes and maybe their lifes.