Quote Originally Posted by KariTheFox View Post

What if, instead of turning away from the sundered in horror and revulsion, the ascians had guided the sundered people out of thier confusion and disorientation, taught them the ways of the Amaurotine culture and helped thier civilizations thrive. With the ability to travel freely between the shards, and incredible magic at thier disposal, it would have been pretty easy for the unsundered to provide for all the people in the various shards.

Then, with the knowledge of minds of fourteen shards working together, they could have tried to devise means of communicating or travelling between shards. Figured out a way to consensually rejoin shards (after all, maybe people would be interested in making thier souls more whole, if the ascians had explained what that entailed). And as for the souls trapped in Zodiark, well if getting them back really required sacrificing non-sentient plants and animals, then the ascians and the sundered they were cooperating with could work on fixing that problem too.
I was actually hoping that we could enter into some type of alliance with an unsundered and done something like this...but instead we ended up having to kill all of them. Such a shame because I think that could've taken the story in a really cool direction.