Quote Originally Posted by Alaray View Post
Dynamis isn't what affected them, though -- the Meteia are, in FFXIV's version of the word, entelechies, which are basically empaths in this case. Once so many Meteia encountered so many incredibly dense, negative emotions from those civilizations they watched fall/die/etc... those feelings became a part of their emotional state, a constant burden of sorrow born from the ends of thousands of worlds. They could no longer separate their ontological selves from the massive tsunami of these emotions (and part of this is a bit of a design flaw, since they /are/ made primarily from Dynamis, which would mean their Dynamis would change to be aspected to these emotions as they continuously encounter them). To where, their thought went to "everything is destined to die, and so everyone is destined to suffer. The only way to remove the suffering, is to kill everything" (mirroring the conclusions of the dead civilizations, which were conclusions born from the same source of emotional distress) and from there, they harnessed the external energies of Dynamis that was then heavily infused with the sorrow of thousands, thousands of civilizations'. Dynamis is an energy affected by emotion, the Meteia harnessed it with a particular emotional drive and a particular motive in mind.

The raw, conscious emotions affect entelechies (the flower turning black with Hermes and you), dynamis is just an energy that's a blank slate until someone harnesses it with their own emotions (be it Sorrow, as seen from the Meteia, or Conviction, as seen when you LB3, or a mixture of Desperation, Conviction and Will -- like when Elidibus LB1/2/3/4's. Dynamis isn't /always/ sorrow).
That all sounds like something that shouldn't have been introduced in the second to last zone, lol.