Quote Originally Posted by Riastrad View Post
Oh, it certainly helped. But it would have been better to just send us to begin with.
How would he plan to do that, though? As far as anyone is aware at this point, living mortals cannot cross the rift without first abandoning their body. The Warriors of Darkness had to kill themselves so their souls could travel to the Source; that's not really a solution that's viable for us. It would leave our own world unprotected.

He is sending Minfilia – now an aetherial being and an extension of Hydaelyn Herself – to do a job that an extension of Hydaelyn can do. And at least in its original presentation in 3.4 was supposed to involve outright fixing the First by absorbing the Light and using it to recharge Hydaelyn's failing strength. Somehow (real answer: to give us a narrative in 5.0) that part didn't happen, Hydaelyn seems weaker than ever and Minfilia could only hold back rather than undo the Flood.


Quote Originally Posted by Riastrad View Post
Urianger actually comments on how it was all his fault during the trek in Ahm Arang. All the death and suffering were caused by his actions. Convenient then that he never pays the cost.
He beats himself up a lot about being forced into hard decisions, as I see it. He regrets the suffering that the generations of Minfilias have gone through, but if he hadn't sent Minfilia to begin with, the whole world would have drowned in the Flood of Light a hundred years ago and they never would have been born. (And they probably didn't suffer greatly more than the rest of the people trying to fight the sin eaters anyway.) It's a bad thing that happened instead of a far worse alternative, but he blames himself for it regardless.