Disappointed in one Endwalker Aspect [SPOILERS]

[vormela]

I was more replying to the original post.

We start out the game with Hydaelyn. She is a constant thread throughout the story and is what united the scions and strengthened their resolve in many ways, mainly through Minfilia's and Alphinaud's leadership. There are eight years of motivation to explain.

The development from a wooden mask wearing primal worshiped the way they were in the cutscene to whatever Hydaelyn and the bunny ship was may be one giant LEAP (haha pun intended). That could be part of it. She was also a continuation of the mitigation measures Zodiark started out with, so her story is intrinsically tied to his.

Also...Elidibus seems to be involved in the new raids somehow since his voice seems to be narrating the last cutscene of the game. And so I think a lot of the desires you, I, and others have for more of "that side" of the story will play out through the raids. There could be a whole different take on their motivations coming up and it might have little to do with Zodiark. I am still like, "who branded the ascians. Why do they body-hop. Why couldn't they have just summoned Zodiark without becoming ascians and subjecting themselves and the sacrificed people to eternal purgatory. Did they become ascians for another purpose?" We will be in a raid somehow involving the biggest body-hopper to ever walk Etheirys. And also, there is an immortal person with that very problem laying at the edge of the universe after we punched his lights out. Maybe it is premature to think we are done with stuff like that.