Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
And if chickens and other animals are enough and they truly care about sentient/sapient races why would Emet state that all the remaining inhabitants of the source would be offered as a sacrifice to Zodiark? You know those people that would have been whole thus "alive" again. Those people that included reborn Amaurotines and other Ancient souls. They would still be sacrificied. So if their plan was alway just normal animals why change towards the end? It only imo makes sense if the life that was supposed to die was also already more.
Why would Emet sacrifice his own people he's trying to make whole again through rejoinings? He says to the WoL during the lift cutscene, "Should you survive the remaining calamities, you will become our equal. A complete existence in a complete world."

The 'remaining' inhabitants of the Source would be those without Ancient souls and since this is 12k+ years into the future that probably did include sentient life. However, it's a stretch to say that's what was intended for the third sacrifice. The second sacrifice to Zodiark was to make Etheirys inhabitable again, so what purpose would be served by bringing back humanoid races? The priority would be on flora and the basic amount of fauna necessary to create a functioning ecosystem.

I have to wonder what plan they could've come up with prior to the Final Days to create the barrier around Etheirys. Had they been given warning and been proactive, they wouldn't have had to rely on only themselves for aether and the second sacrifice wouldn't have even been necessary since they would've prevented the destruction of the world.