*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

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Funny how you keep saying zodiark will inevitably faltered, when it's never mentioned in the game. Or in the case that I'm mistaken and it's actually mentioned, zodiark manage to keep earth safe after being sundered into 14 reflection, for 12 thousand years. And it's a veeeery long time even by the Ancients standard (judging by emet's reaction hearing our tale). For someone who's motto is "nothing is impossible", she sure quick to gave up on her own kind.

Sure, sacrificing one generation of life to bring back the past is an extreme dick move, but supposedly the sundering never happened, what's stopping the Ancients to find a way to fight back meteion? Oh I know, because venat never bother to tell them the source of final days. For all the Ancients know, it's a strange phenomenon from the star itself, one cannot explain by their researches. They don't know it's caused by entity that could be defeated.

And now the sundering happen, instead of one generation we got multiple generation being wiped out so the WoL can have a chance in defeating meteion. Bravo venat.

Now that etheryis is peaceful once again, what stopping the sundered to become Allag 2.0? Reaching perfection and being bored due to it. Or maybe they'll wipe humanity due to civil war like how the second society on last dungeon? We know they got the potential for that. What then? Having venat 2.0 to do sundering again and restart mankind?

I don’t think you’re getting what I’m trying to say. Zodiark will inevitably fail because he is not a perfect god. He will do all he is capable of, which is much, but inevitably a crisis will arise that he cannot wave away. Perhaps Meteion finally breaks through the shroud of aether. Perhaps another like Hermes or Amon despairs and wishes to bring an end to things. Perhaps another tragedy befalls the world that the Ancients could not conceive of. The possibilities are endless, and the solutions limited. And once again, she explicitly did not give up. First, she tried to convince the Ancients on multiple occasions. And even then, her faith in humanity is not divided by presundered and sundered, she views them as one in the same. Shattered sure, but mankind one and the same.

And the Ancients, a society that was so desperate to escape suffering that it would sacrifice innocent life for their benefit, is to face a graveyard of civlizations, the eventual heat death of the universe and being born of pure despair? Armed with only faith that Zodiark would stop all? They would falter. That is a fact. They would need to come to terms with suffering, of which I believe they could. But as they were during the Final Days? No I don’t believe they would.

If I recall, Midgardsormr was not the only dragon to flee, although he was considered the most powerful (both to flee and in general). It's just that very few dragons chose to flee, and to the dragons in the (recreation at Ultima Thule of the) Dragonstar, Midgardsormr's survival is the only one they'd heard of from us. If any other of the fleeing dragons survived, we might never know.

Also I liked that after the final MSQ, the sidequests in Ultima Thule had the recreations there start to live and hope again, like how the dragons realized that while their world was dead, they still had the power, however miniscule, to slowly bring it back to life.

I believe it’s explicitly said that none else fled because they thought it cowardice, though I’ll look and see if I can grab the quote. And yeah those post finale quest lines were nice, sad but nice