Forget all the time travel stuff. Can anyone explain to me what Vanet's plan would've been if the ancients agreed and didn't offer more souls to Zodiark to bring life back to the planet? Like the ancients can't interact with dynamis to a meaningful degree so aside from sundering and splitting everyone up to make their aether thinner and thus easier to interact with dynamis, what was the plan? Could the ancients have learned to accept suffering enough to defeat dynamis? Seems to me that there was no reason to try and talk them down because there was always going to be the threat of emo bird lingering on the edge of space. Are they just going to live with it? Because present-time sundered people can't live with it. They went to the edge of the universe and beat Meteion to stop it. How were the ancients going to do that? COULD they have done that? If so, why would Vanet not offer that information rather than going on about how they have to live with suffering and then slice them up when they didn't agree?

To me it doesn't make much sense. Maybe I missed something. Their sacrificing seemed to have little to do with the threat at hand. Personally I think it would've made more sense if the aether/stream of the planet itself became damaged by all the God-playing the Ancients were doing and eventually it led to a breaking point that resulted in the end-days. Then the themes they set up in the story would've made a bit more sense for me.