Quote Originally Posted by Slatersev View Post
The Ancients turtling behind Zodiark isnt a stalemate for her, its just a road block she would eventually be able to break one way or the other
She was able to break it but very slowly. I can remember a cutscene in that Yshtola(?) tells the player that the overall amount of aether on the planet decreases and they don't know the reason for it. So the final days would still happen, but later.

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