Sharlayan origins and the Endwalker Trailer

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The thing about the Sundering is that it eliminated the people.
That is to say, when all of the people were sundered, they eventually died and lived lives without memories of their past. Who they actually were never got to make a choice for the future. The people of the current era only have a limited scope with which to view the future, even.

Except we have no evidence that doing so completely removed people’s memories. The mural in Qitana Ravel, the references to Azem in the Azim Steppe suggest otherwise. I think it’s rather more likely that Amaurot passed into myth. Remember, nothing remains from the early Astral Eras.

As far as the sacrifices to Zodiark go, as I recall, it was life that existed thanks to Zodiark in the first place, and it was not elaborated upon whether it was sentient or not. If they were to sacrifice thousands of literal cattle, trees, bugs, etc. then there's no real issue with it, imo. Or are you saying that you live an austere life, that doesn't put mankind above the rest of the Earth?

They were obviously sentient enough to have souls, otherwise they couldn’t replace those in Zodiark.

Also, I'd bear in mind that they chose to still display those sorcerers as believing in positions that the audience would still find morally reprehensible(moral relativism), at large, knowing that no small part would ever believe them completely, anyway. What the Ascians have been doing is eliminating one set of lives, out of a possibly endless number of lives, in order to try and make the world and its people whole again. And they know it's not ideal, but they hadn't found another way.

At the cost of billions of lives they dont even recognized as real.

It's funny to me that Team Hydaelyn's stance is essentially, "The new life has the right to live and make its own choices, but the Ancients don't." To give Hydaelyn a pass is to denigrate all of the lives she destroyed.

The Ancients don’t have the right to take others lives for their own benefit, point blank.