Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
Right, but none of the retcons have changed anything about the role she had. We know Hydaelyn and Ramza were connected from the Ivalice raids, we have a firsthand account for that. We have Her efforts to prevent the Seventh Umbral Calamity. We have the records messaged in the Encyclopedia of visions and blessing that we’re not the Echo being bestowed on heroes at the time. And we have Venat/Hydaelyns statements on the future, on the Rejoining and the Calamities. All points in a singular direction, that she tried to halt the Calamities.
Once again, I am not disputing that she tried. I am observing that she had detailed foreknowledge of all that would transpire. She knew her champions would fail time and time again, yet she chose the same ones anyway. My general assumption is that the individuals she chose to empower in any given era were the most worthy, meaning failure would have been a possibility even had she taken advantage of her knowledge of future events and selected others.