Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Again, why is it bizarre? If we weren't told anything beforehand, there wasn't anything to reduce.
Bizarre as a storytelling choice. The writers have chosen to make Zodiark inert and a non-entity without his heart. After so much lead-up and talk about him they have chosen to write him as basically nothing of interest.


Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Well, Elidibus said he made the decision to separate himself from Zodiark (unless my memory fails me) in order to help the Ascians. That would imply this is the real Elidibus.
It would imply that he thinks he's the real Elidibus, but that isn't a 100% guarantee that he really is. If memories can be implanted, a hypothetical "fake primal copy Elidibus" could have memories that come from his friends' memories of him. If anything that could be a really good explanation of why his memory is failing so badly – its not really his at all, but memories that have been added as part of the primal summoning, and that power is wearing away.