What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[baklava151]

Telos apparently means purpose. Telomania means obsession with purpose. You're going to cause the universe to live on and there will be more pain and suffering and she's desperate to stop you.

Telos just means end or completion, I don't think even in ancient Greek it meant purpose

[Lauront]

Telos just means end or completion, I don't think even in ancient Greek it meant purpose

It can basically mean purpose (see for instance the word "teleology") in the same sense that the word "end" can imply a goal or purpose. So for example with the Telophoroi it was bringers of the end. With Meteion? It's probably the writers being clever and playing on the word's dual meaning, since Meteion was obsessed with finding purpose (since Hermes was), but then she is also the Endsinger, and also driven mad by the what she believed to be the inevitability of civilisational death and even the eventual end of the universe, both of which she helped accelerate, so obsessed with the end in that sense too.

[baklava151]

It can basically mean purpose (see for instance the word "teleology") in the same sense that the word "end" can imply a goal or purpose. So for example with the Telophoroi it was bringers of the end. With Meteion? It's probably the writers being clever and playing on the word's dual meaning, since Meteion was obsessed with finding purpose (since Hermes was), but then she is also the Endsinger, and also driven mad by the what she believed to be the inevitability of civilisational death and even the eventual end of the universe, both of which she helped accelerate, so obsessed with the end in that sense too.

I could see it, language is a pretty flexible thing