Thinking about Elidibus

[Anonymoose]

That's interesting, is this ever revealed in the materials or is it just an inference?

The "eternal string of course-corrections" part is inference based on that their new plan always starts from where the old plan failed and accounts for the new status-quo somehow. The thing he was having the Warriors of Darkness do was explained in multiple pieces across a long time, but, thank the Twelve, Ardbert just summarized it when he was falling for Urianger's "Hey, why don't you just kill the Warrior of Light instead?" misdirection.

Warrior of Darkness
You know, you're right. Mayhap it is time for a change of tack. Killing primals, tormenting beastmen, hastening the birth of a new god... It's all a bit much, isn't it? And, frankly, we don't have the leisure to do it. Killing the Warrior of Light, on the other hand─that would soon plunge Eorzea into chaos.

The part about Venat's faction opposing Zodiark because of practicality concerns is also new to me, I just took Hythlodaeus' word for it that the conflict was ideological in nature, with Zodiark's faction being those who wished to restore Amaurot to glory through sacrifice, and Hydaelyn's being those who wished to entrust the world to the new life.

The fact that a shade of Hythlodaeus created by a tempered Ascian still vouches for that this is why Hydaelyn was summoned makes me believe it. I'm curious if what happened was that Zodiark was not supposed to stay summoned forever, but once the Convocation was tempered and saw him as the One True God they felt that he was the answer to every problem, even his own intended impermanence. If they couldn't get rid of Zodiark, they could at least summon something to balance out His Darkness. Not that it made anything better in the end. But hey it did enable us to exist so there's that.

It's kind of shocking that the Ascians were still careless about the balance of light and dark even after the monumental failure on the 13th that they'd need one of their own to intervene. Some superior race these guys are.

It's kind of shocking that the Ascians were still careless about a bunch of things, lol. But it looks like the Ascians in black did tend to go overboard, especially the reincarnated ones. They seem to be a little glitchy.