You're confusing aetherial darkness with despair.

There are no redundancies here. Zodiark isn't some evil bringer of death and despair, anymore than hydaelyn brings happiness.

He's just aspected to that element, which is in no way, evil. You were TOLD this in Shb, there is really no excuse for not knowing this.


Meteion is all about emotion. In this case, despair. Nothing to do with darkness or aether. Literally nothing.

You fight Zenos ONCE in EW. One solo duty. No idea why you're whining about a second. That never happened.