Zodiark: Good or evil? thoughts

[KizuyaKatogami]

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Just a curious question: Would you want them to go the way that we watch billions of lives including us and NPCs we know to be killed? Even at a point were we would not be fractured beings with degraded souls anymore because after the rejoining we would be nearly complete again. Yet we would still be sacrified.

If you’re asking me, then sure. I don’t care for 99% of the characters in the game lol. Now if i was in the perspective of where i was actually a character in the game then obviously not, that’s why it’s a matter of perspective. But seeing that it’s just a video game yeah i would rather they complete the rejoinings. Yes ancients died before, but we’re told they were nigh-on immortal, and we have time stamps that seem to place them well over thousands of years old. We also know they were immune to illness and there didn’t seem to be any wars back then. So it was a much safer environment overall. Whereas after the sundering, the sundered beings can die to the things above and age wise for certain races it’s much much lower, hence that the rejoinings would save more lives in the long run.

[Alleo]

If you’re asking me, then sure. I don’t care for 99% of the characters in the game lol. Now if i was in the perspective of where i was actually a character in the game then obviously not, that’s why it’s a matter of perspective. But seeing that it’s just a video game yeah i would rather they complete the rejoinings. Yes ancients died before, but we’re told they were nigh-on immortal, and we have time stamps that seem to place them well over thousands of years old. We also know they were immune to illness and there didn’t seem to be any wars back then. So it was a much safer environment overall. Whereas after the sundering, the sundered beings can die to the things above and age wise for certain races it’s much much lower, hence that the rejoinings would save more lives in the long run.

I guess at least I know now what you mean with perspective. For me perspective while discussion lore does not mean that you watch it outside from a kinda detachted way but that people try to see it through the eyes of the people they choose to see it from. Try to feel their reasons and things like that. Not in the sense of course that this is all real but still with the intention on feeling how someone in that situation would feel. So no matter how sad it was what the Ancients had to go through, I who see it through the eyes of a WoL that loves the people that live there right now, cant accept that fate. Especially for something that might not even lead somewhere. Which makes it hard to discuss it with someone that basically does not really care at all in that way. (And I dont mean that its bad, I just mean that we are bascially on different lanes of discussing something)

Well we also have a lot of information of the Ancient world through Emets eyes. At the same time a position existed that was soley there to travel across the world solving or at least listening to the problems of the people. We have at least one soul that was so miserable and full of anger that he was a danger while being a phoenix and we had a whole dungeon where experiments ran amok and seemingly killed a few people. Then we had the scene where other than Azem everyone else would not go to that island to solve the volcano problem. Who knows if all was truly so peaceful?

Also this were parts of the description of the underworld in one short story:

As water flows to the sea and rises to the sky before raining upon the land once more, the Underworld was a fundamental part of the circle of life. And for this reason, it was regarded at once with familiarity and reverence by men, who, despite their godlike powers, could not claim dominion over it.

This is what Emet saw constantly:

Here and there, lives that had served their purpose drifted upon the current before suddenly plunging down unto the Underworld.

It does sound that even if they might have had a long life, people still died. They even called it as part of the circle of life. People might die easier now but how much of that is because of the Ascians? How many wars and other conflicts would have never existed without them?