Quote Originally Posted by Satarn View Post
The problem with the Ea's "death of the universe" conundrum, is that it's trying to base itself on our world's science and laws while in a setting that works under completely different rules, without the writers properly considering how those rules change the outcome.

The space is expanding and one day the stars will be too far from the planets to give them any life-supporting heat? So? Who gives a crap? Literally just in this expansion we have seen two artificial suns made by two different groups of people, through different means. Just make some of those with magic, heck, summon a giant sun-primal that follows the planet even when the space expands. You're worried about atmosphere or gravity? Have you seen Ultima Thule? Or even just the moon? Is weather an issue for you? Don't worry, Sharlayans can just make that too.

Real-life issues don't really apply when you have this kind of magic and technology and it's silly to pretend it does, just to make it more "realistic" and "hit close to home" to provoke a more emotional response form people. In the end it breaks the suspension of disbelief, makes the characters look like idiots (although Enwalker has really felt like characters taking stupid pills for the entire storyline) and ultimately falls flat.

Speaking of stupid pills - I wonder how the heck was leaving Eatheris supposed to save people from The Final Days. If anything it would just make them even more exposed to Meteia and their dynamis-based powers, given how most of the universe isn't actually as dense in aether as The Star. Good plan.
I think that's the point the whole story in Ea is trying to make. We're able to use Aether and we can find ways to combat this that makes sense in our own understanding. We can't understand specifically why it wouldn't work, as told by Ea with our current knowledge. Besides, they don't need weather since they function without corporeal bodies. That implies the problem extends beyond the problem of what aether can naturally change.

Also you have to remember, Hyadelyn doesn't know the full extent of the ability of Meteion after she left Etheriys. She only knows Meteion was going to doom Etheriys, so she tries to setup life elsewhere as a contingency plan. We only know Metetion traveled to a lot of stars, not the full extent of the world. She doesn't know that this was the last Bastion of the world - as told by Midgardsomr after he arrived and the world has already been sundered.

Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
Ah yes, destroying the world of your people because you’re bereft of hope for them is paving the way. Such a hero such a hero. Guess the moral of this story is dont have hope in your family and friends, instead place all of your hope in people(someone) youve just met. Oh and also its okay to sacrifice yourself since apparently you'll just be brought back 10 minutes later with the power of friendship! Deep story.
Venat specifically said she knew she was a monster. She also stated she would've never sundered her people unless she saw no other way to proceed - which means she hasn't found a solution even after we left in the circumstances following our departure. For Venat, it's a worse death to rely on Zodiark and attempt to Forestall the Final Days and then wait for the eventual end than it is to find a way forward and continue living. After all, Zodiark only accounts for half the population of the Ancients in Etheriys (not the entire universe), and Dynamis is in a much greater amount than what Zodiark can ever achieve with Aether.

Hyadelyn was no saint, and we can see that when she subjected people to suffer. However, following the sundering, if it wasn't for her, we would've been dead regardless by the Ascian's rejoinings. Take it what you will. A hero isn't a hero to everyone, but only to the ones they are saving - and that was heavily explained through the viewpoints of Emet, Elidibius, and the WoL / Scions in ShB. Venat may not have saved the ancients, but she did her duty as an Ancient to continue & improve life on the Star, which was the ancient's first and foremost goal, even though the means were an extreme way to get the result.

At the same time, you were already entrusted the legacy to safeguard the future of the Star by Emet (which people somehow forget). The ones already aware of the future have already accepted their end at the finale of Ktisis Hyperboreia and left it up to you to solve the problem of the Final Days. In that regard, the ones who are about to forget everything fully accept the outcome and pass on the responsibility to you to figure out.