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Glad that you too would like to see more of Zenos!

As for the official artwork, Venat was in there too and she died...so that worries me a bit in regards to Zenos. Now, in the case of Venat/Hydaelyn, we actually saw her die, we saw her dissipate into aether, but we haven't seen that with Zenos so...yeah. I keep hoping that Zenos will be back and actually be given a proper story, proper development, growth.

And yeah, given that Zenos is an "Ascian in everything but name" as even Krile put it, plus he's a Reaper with an avatar that's supposed to protect him, it would be so weird and so unfulfilling if he died like that. I really hope from the bottom of my heart that Ishikawa won't let him die and will give him a great story and development.
The reason the artwork is interesting to me is WHY is Zenos there? There are no other villains present. Why is Zenos in the middle of all the Scions?

Venat dying makes sense because endwalker was the end of the Hydaelyn arc. Venat is Hydaelyn. You can't really end the arc with her still around. Her inclusion in the art makes sense: she was basically the true leader of the Scions. A member in everything but name. But Zenos isn't.

When the art was revealed Yoshi said something along the lines of "and here are the Scions." Not "here are the scions and Zenos." Zenos isn't a Scion though... at least not yet.

As for everyone saying Zenos killed too many people and there's no way they could forgive him - Emet helped destroy literal worlds. He was trying to cause the shards to collapse to create rejoinings. He was willing to kill literally everyone to get his old way of life back. He helped develop Black Rose which would have killed hundreds of thousands. Emet has waaaay more blood on his hands - but people forgive that and overlook it because Emet is "tragic" and "sympathetic." I'd argue Zenos is too, just in a different way. No one forced Emet to turn out the way he did. But Emet had a hand in making Zenos into a monster. If people can accept redemption for Emet but not Zenos, I find that hypocritical.