Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
There aether was immune sure, but the planet became nearly uninhabitable, their creation magicks birthed horrors unseen and it took a primal with half of their populations aether to contain it.
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It’s not that one is better, it’s that one leads to a world where people can handle struggle without turning to solutions that would falter or fail with time.
And Zodiark fixed these side effects. The sundered Source is less aetherically dense, so should feel the effects of the Final Days much quicker than old Etheirys. My point was about Ancients surviving to the unmaking Meteion loves to use on the Scions.
Steps :
- Summon Zodiark to forestall the doom ;
- Make entelchy automatas to infuse dynamis with hope ;
- Go to where Meteion is, before she spends 12k+ years simmering in her despair ;
- Blast her.
- Go home, unsummon Zodiark, rejoice in duty fulfiled.

Obviously it's an oversimplification, but we will literaly never know if it could even have worked since Venat decided to sunder everything. I strongly hope it somehow branched into a split timeline where they tried.


And again, life *had* a solution when faced to despair, and it was to use their tools of creation to recreate their home. They didn't "give in" like other civilizations. If it ended up in another dead planet, what's the issue with that really.
Zodiark wasn't an easy solution, they had to make sacrifices for the instant bucks, or wait a long time to amass the aether.
Also, why would creation actually fail in time? It had worked for them for literally their whole existence until attacked. Zodiark lasted 12000 years and through the Sundering. If anything, it was 14 times overpowered at least.
If anything, I trust creation magic more than moon-rabbits interstellar drive and having heroes manage to use a power they never heard about 3 days before.