Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
A lot of bodies in the thread like, "Sacrifices bad. Wanting the zenith of the Past, bad!" Ignoring that everything that could possibly be sacrificed was also robbed of agency and killed by the Sundering all the same.
I guess since everything was mortal after that, the sundering did kill many years later but right now we dont even know if the sundering act itself kills. IMO it makes no sense if it does because you need something to be alive to continue living.

What other way should it have gone? We are shown quite well that the Ancients went against their own code of honor (Emet says in Elpis that those that sacrificed themselves would be held in the highest of honor and trying to bring them back goes against this) and even when the planet was fine again they turned to Zodiark with a plan to sacrifice more to get the Amaurotines inside Zodiark back. That life they would have chosen again and again over time (since they would need a huge amount of aether to exchange the souls) would have been lost inside of Zodiark forever. Now it can at least be reborn again.

Zodiark was no long term solution even Emet says that at the end. Either Meteion would have destroyed it anyway by singing her song of oblivion or the Ancients would end as others planets did that tried to take suffering competely out of their life.

What she has done brought suffering. She does not try to hide it behind kind words. She herself says that it was horrible. But ultimately it was the solution that lets mankind continue, that stopped the faster death of the universe and that released all those captured souls from Meteion into the universe again.