Quote Originally Posted by dapperfaffer View Post
Hydaelyns actions were because she didn't think Zodiark would work, and it came at the cost of their lives. She had no plan other then how best do I ensure survival of life, and if it happens again how can life escape pre WoL.
Then post WoL nothing changed, except now we now the cause of the Final Days and what to kill to make it stop. So it gave another option other than flee from the fee-fees.
The traveling to Elpis was nothing more than exposition in what is largely an exposition heavy story as all it really did was explain what caused the Final Days in a convoluted manner. And to later explain the Hermes, Fandaniel, Amon and Allegan connection.
Except we’re later told that’s not exactly what it was. Venat’s whole thing was she didn’t think the Ancients could overcome despair/suffering and defeat Meteion. She knew Zodiark wasn’t a permanent solution, we’re shown this in Anamnesis. However the problem here is she didn’t even give the ancients a valid chance. She gave up on them in favor of someone she had only just met. We know they can manipulate Dynamis, we know that she could in some way get through to Emet. She just chose not to. If they had at least had her mind wiped then her actions and the sundering would make a bit more sense as at that point it would be more an act of pure desperation and unknowingness.