Quote Originally Posted by GALynx View Post
This reveal is giving me a headache. I want to wonder what caused Graha Tia's timeline to happen. Like Shadowbringers made it appear it was the original timeline. But it's not now, which means something clearly happened to prevent us to meet past Venat, which would prevent her from making us her champion in that timeline. But seeing how that timeline went unhindered, that must mean we have went into a different past and told Venat, but that is not the case cause that event impacted our timeline to prevent it from diverging.
That's a good point. If the WOL died before they could travel to Elpis, then we can only assume Venat chose to become Hydalaen of her own accord in that timeline. (And, not knowing of the cause of the Final Days being Meteion, may not have created the Lopporits....)

But she was also unsuccessful at stopping the Ardor, and with the 8th Calamity, the Source world was rejoined to all shards, Hydalaen was presumably weakened to the point where she could no longer contain Zodiark, and at the end of the world, we can assume Emet and Elidibus sacrificed all of the souls on the world to try to bring back Amaurot. But Zodiark is a blood god, and would he be satisfied with that alone? Would Zodiark's power be enough to prevent Meiteion and Dynamis?