Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
The thing is she could’ve saved her people. She chose not to even give them a chance that’s the problem a lot of people have with her thought process. It rings incredibly hollow especially so that she didn’t seem to care much for the other shards, as she was willing to leave them and only let the source be saved via the moon. So her “love” rings hollow when she constantly preaches about her children but then wouldn’t give her own people a fighting chance and instead lied and kept secrets from them. It just seems like a way to further empower the sundered people which, in reality it was a minority of them who did anything about Meteion. The majority were still vulnerable like the ancients.Of course everyone is free to their thoughts just wanted to give my 2c
That's what I thought, but how could she save her people? In the closed timeloop, there's a chance if she told people like Emet, Emet would involve Hermes and then Hermes would have a chance to remember the events that happened. Remember what she said, Hermes is needed to deal with the incoming calamities, not only the calamity of the Final Days. She couldn't risk the problem of Hermes betraying the Ancients at that point in time before the Final Days happen, nor can the convocation capture and require Hermes to reveal everything he knows about Dynamis -- especially since Hermes was going to be on the Seat of Fandaniel and that position alone has its own responsibilities. So she could plan around that event and gather hope to confront the Final Days (which... failed according to the cutscene, hence she sundered everyone to give hope).

For the part of the Final Days dying, I'm quite sure the "Moon" wasn't really so much of a failsafe for us. The three things we need to be aware of is that:

1. In the normal events, Zodiark should've never been freed (much less died) before all the shards are rejoined and the Loporrits were mobilized. It would make sense to only make a failsafe for the Source only, then. It would make sense that Hyadelyn would tell the Loporrits the denizens of Etheriys were gigantic, as mankind failed to get an answer and the ancients aren't going to be able to do any better since they can't interact with Dynamis as easily, which led to the option of fleeing. She believed that we would've eventually became rejoined and whole and the Ascians had won, had Zodiark broke free and the Final Days were upon us. Zodiark can only Forestall the Final Days. He wasn't a solution to the Final Days itself.

Up until the time Zodiark died, Hyadelyn wasn't able to talk to the Loporrits because she had directed all her energies into sealing Zodiark and talking to us (in the few times she can talk to us), nor had a reason to do so.

2. Even though she is an ancient with vast amounts of Aether, she still has a limit. Some of her Aether is tied to keeping Zodiark back, the other part is kept in reserve for the final trial. Her sundering also differed between each shard. As we learned, the First had light in most sway, while the Thirteenth had the least amount of light. We learn Hyadelyn's power is the weakest in the Thirteenth shard, which also leads me to believe she simply doesn't have enough power to keep the shards safe either from the very beginning, much less create a moon big enough for all the inhabitants while keeping Zodiark in check. It is more apt to say- the shards were doomed to fall in the beginning, and stopping Zodiark is only a temporary measure before the rejoinings finally kill her and all the worlds converged back to the Source. She can try to help them and delay the rejoining, but she just doesn't have the power to save everything. She was destined to die and the only thing she can change is delaying the inevitable by giving mankind more time to survive and find an answer. She simply didn't have the aether to create another moon and ship for the other shards.

3. The final thing to know is that... Midgardsomr arrived long after Etheriys was sundered. That meant Hyadelyn only learned of Etheriys as the "Last Bastion of Hope" much later after she made the moon. So uhh.... yeah. The moon option was more or less a last ditch effort, and one that she rather not choose if she had the ability to do so. She spent her energies strengthening us instead.