Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
WoL at least did tell everyone and can even offer to stay and help before leaving Elpis. Venat convinced them not to.

But yes, WoL also being partly culpable in this is quite an issue people have had with the story.
This. Unfortunately, what we were left with was entrusting the knowledge of the future to someone who arguably misused that information and prevented us from acting further to make a difference. So, at the end, I came away from it feeling like dirt. Not only had I failed to save anyone in the past, I trusted the wrong person to do the right thing, and I gave her the ammunition to do it with too.

Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
We can surmise the ancients did not live forever but Emet-Selch (in the Ladder encounter) describes them as living for an age, or in the FR version, as being practically immortal. So I'd consider it to be of little relevance whether infinite lifespans were reduced to rather short ones, or whether ones we'd consider exceedingly long were cut in such a fashion. It is still a drastic reduction.
I wish I'd read this far before I started shuffling through screenshots. :P Well, self inflicted damage is done, the exact EN quote (from Emet @ the Lift cutscene) is: "Men knew peace and contentment, and with our adamant souls, we could live for an age."