Quote Originally Posted by Absimiliard View Post
We know just from playing through the game that the Ancients were quite well acquainted with suffering. We also know that they were actually even quicker to learn from their mistakes than the sundered a lot of the time. Like the sundered, they too had their own battles to fight. Also like the sundered, many of these battles weren't of a physical nature. Their fighting probably would never have stopped either.

That aside, how do you figure the second set of sacrifices was a mistake? The planet was quite literally no longer capable of supporting life. Were it not for the second sacrifice to Zodiark, it would've remained a barren wasteland all but devoid of life. In time, even the remaining Ancients (of which the game leads us to believe were only the Amaurotines, all others beyond it having apparently already died) would've succumbed to the near-literal hellscape the environment had become. More than merely fixing the world, it was through the second set of sacrifices that new life was sown upon it.
I really don’t understand this notion the ancients didn’t know suffering until the final days when we have so much proof it isn’t true.