Endwalker does a lot of things right, but the final story arch is such a failure imo

[RyuDragnier]

It's not literal because there was an amount of time between each sacrifice. The Sundering happened before the third sacrifice could be made. All we really saw was essentially Hythlodaeus going off to be part of the original sacrifices, and then it skipped to Venat talking to people before Sundering. Meaning there is a huge gap of time there not shown or mentioned.

[OhNooo]

The best thing about this expansion for me was the music. They absolutely nailed it with the music. I admit that EW felt like a step down for me story wise. It really felt rushed in several parts but then dragged on in other parts. As the conclusion to the whole arc there were some high points for sure, but they were sprinkled in sparingly and I finished the msq with more questions than when I started Shb. HW is still my favorite expansion as far as the story goes.

Unpopular opinion but I feel like I had way more fun with this game back in SB when I was skipping cutscenes. My favorite 24 man raid tier still to this day came out of SB.

[SquigglesMajor]

It's not literal because there was an amount of time between each sacrifice. The Sundering happened before the third sacrifice could be made. All we really saw was essentially Hythlodaeus going off to be part of the original sacrifices, and then it skipped to Venat talking to people before Sundering. Meaning there is a huge gap of time there not shown or mentioned.

There's a difference between it being something metaphorical and just being a lie. Obviously we know it's wrong but they play it completely straight face and make no effort to explain why they are showing an incorrect version of events. At that point it's literally just lying for no reason.