Quote Originally Posted by EirolOcarrol View Post
I favor ideas and theories like these, because I really don't like taking the ideas of Ascian/Amaurotine supremacy and perfection at the face value that Emet-Selch has presented it.

I have my own biases for wanting this. I grew very attached to Hydaelyn and her voice was one of comfort since 1.0. And these pro-Zodiark-Ascian theories undermine that entirely. Many people who think the opposite of me probably have their own biases, as well. Some many not want a simple morality tale of good and evil played fairly straight in the "Heroes vs. forces of Morgoth" traditional fashion. Some may like the plot twist of "what once was our greatest ally was actually not good" plot twist. Some people really like "the good people were actually the evil people" plot twists. Or some just really like Emet-Selch to the point that anything which would bend the story in his favor is seen as a good thing. I really liked Hydaelyn in 1.0. I liked Minfilia. And I like the Lady of Light(most likely Venat). I don't want what was built up as this maternal Goddess who I found comforting and a motivating force to play the game and "be a brave heroine" to be undermined by such a plot twist. I do recognize that's a part of my bias as a 1.0 player and something that stuck with me and motivated me to play XIV.

But I think it would be just as reasonable to suspect a perfect "utopian society" to indeed be perfect, and have nothing to do with their own downfall. It just seems a bit idealistic to be true. Wouldn't it be just as suspicious that a "perfect society that must be returned to" and "was only stopped from some unimaginably powerful and unstoppable mystery force". That we're apparently going to defeat in Endwalker while being sundered, something that the unsundered could not defeat in their 'peak society'. Does the writing team really want to play the idea of "a glorious superior people from a glorious superior nation that they must take back from the decadent sundered, modern world" completely straight? Especially since the book it was based off of, Thomas More's Utopia, is considered a criticism or satire?
Or some of us just like the depiction of a realistic world where there is nuance and shades of gray and nothing and no one is completely good or evil.