Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
So how does that make Hydaelyn, who both forced you to be (re)born and put you into a state of being where you'll ignorantly die thousands of times, "in your corner"? She literally enlisted WoL into her war without consent and lied to their face about the origins of the conflict.
This isn't necessarily true because we don't know what happened after she was summoned but before she sundered Zodiark and all existence.

As I've pointed out numerous times in the thread, there is panel in Rak'tika that specifically shows Zodiark and Hydaelyn together, as if there was a time they co-existed or were balanced before they were forced into a confrontation. I did not believe this was super important until the beginning of 5.4 when the WOL literally flashes back to look at that scene of them together. So evidence points to a missing event that caused the confrontation and most likely involved Azem as the WOL is focusing in on it literal opening prologue of the 6.0 lead up.

So we don't know if Azem/WOL was coerced into the war, or had to choose sides, or only stepped in to clean up the aftermath. You assume it was coercion because you literally haven't been given the answer yet.