Sharlayan origins and the Endwalker Trailer

[Cilia]

I don't like playing Quote Chop Suey, so...

Simply put I disagree with the Convocation's intent to "return to the way things were" due to Heraclitus' philosophical doctrine of panta rhei, or "everything flows." Nobody steps through the same river twice; or more contextually you can't go back to the way things were, because not only has the world changed since [X time ago] you have changed as well. To believe you can return to the previous status quo, much less enshrine it in eternity, is absolute folly. Months, years, decades... centuries... millennia... change is inevitable.

"Venat & co. shouldn't have summoned Hydaelyn because the Convocation said they were going with the Amaurot Restoration Plan, and enjoyed popular support."
This is fallacious reasoning; specifically an appeal to authority and popularity. Just because the Convocation decided on that course of action, and just because it was popularly supported, doesn't mean it was right. If you disagree with that course of action and your conviction is true, and authority refuses to listen to your concerns, rebellion is not just right, it is necessary to have your voice heard. This will likely end up hurting people, but that is the price that must be paid, and to do nothing is a betrayal of one's conscience - to lack a moral center and conviction to go with it.

The whole scheme is ultimately an attempt to escape the consequences of the Final Days of yore - trying to both have one's cake and eat one's cake. It's entirely understandable why they'd want to try, and with Zodiark offering the temptation also understandable they'd give in, but that's just a weakness of heart. Trying to reclaim what wast lost, regardless of the cost, instead of standing the pain and moving forward... it's maladaptive, living in the past like that. Born of the innocence that came with living in a "perfect" world, but all the same...

Those who live in the past risk losing sight of the future.

Never you mind the fact it might not be possible for Zodiark to resurrect people body and soul; and even if he is, whether or not those people would be understanding and accepting of the price that was paid to bring them back.

Anyway... the pro-Zodiark / anti-Hydaelyn camp has all but said verbatim it's arguing in bad faith (as was postulated from the first), and like I said I don't enjoy Quote Chop Suey, so I'll take my leave at this juncture. Suffice to say that of two bad options I see Hydaelyn as the better of the two (not a good one, just the lesser of two evils) for philosophical reasons, and the Ancients / Ascians throwing a private pity party over their losses doesn't change my opinion on the subject. Some differences can't be reconciled.