Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
with the expansion trailer featuring us as a paladin on the moon(protecting Zodiark)
DUDE THANK YOU! I have been waiting for someone to bring this up because even though Koji told us that the Amano art has secrets I haven't seen anyone talk about it in my neck of the woods. I'm not sure why but when I see the drawing the first thing that comes to mind is "Desperation". It looks like Hydaleyn is triumphing over Zodiark and those blue tendrils look like his essence is being drawn out of him and in a last act he's reaching out to someone to save him.

Zodiark's original purpose was to save the ancient world and my admittedly own little head canon is that the quotes in SoS can be interpreted through Zodiark as well, things like
"I am Salvation given form" Zodiark's raison d'etre and "Mankinds first hero and his FINAL hope" Zodiark being the last resort the convocation turned to as a means to stop the final days

With this in mind I have a hard time painting him as the malevolent figure he was described back when all we knew of him was that he was the Ascian's "Dark God" but I also feel like its only fair to give Hydaleyn a chance to explain before we draw any conclusions(things like if the sundering was intentional or an unforeseen side effect would change or perception of Venat and the Mother Crystal instantly for example)

Your Idea that we might be protecting Zodiark from something or someone feels like a plausible idea my guess is that were either protecting him from Zenos who's getting ready to fill the Elidibus sized hole in him or maybe someone else coming to finish the job? Curious on what everyone thinks!