Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
If Zodiark mostly invokes Astral Will of the Planet and the ancients were full aware of the need for balance, Hydaelyn may have been summoned as the Umbral Will of the Planet to help balance him out. The hopes may have been that instead of one voice making all the decisions, there would be two different voices that could reach compromise much like how the Amaurotine people did through their various verbal debates, leading to a better result. However, something happened that led to the fight between the two, because there's no way both Elidibus and Venat would just seek to fight when both come from the very civilization that sought debate to solve problems.
I thought about it along those lines too. But there is the problem where Emet claims the convocation was tempered to Zodiark and to further back that up (granted this was based on our pre-5.5 assumptions of tempering) Venat's followers confirm the inability to convince the convocation to listen to their pleas. Seeing as they do come from a society of debate and discussion, it had to be jarring that the convocation refused to hear them, but if the convocation was tempered then rejecting the summoning of Hydaelyn idea isn't so far fetched. But Krile, at the end of this newest patch, has already started the questioning of the true nature of tempering and implies that people with the echo are bound to Hydaelyn's will (which is interesting the idea is said by her, who also has the echo and heard Hydaelyn)--which can, in light of the previous points, justify that Hydaelyn's purpose is balance so the end of days doesn't come to pass.

It will also be interesting to see how the missing event plays out too. As it will most likely involve Azem, who seems to have been missing from the Ancient Zodiark and Hydaelyn struggle, but had to have played a key role in events or Hydaelyn would have never chosen the WOL as her current champion.