When are we supposed to stop fighting?

[Veloran]

Like, it really doesn't make any sense to say she offered an alternative when Zodiark was already there. Let's imagine that the people listened to her, said she was right, that they needed to move forward from this. Then what? How does that solve Meteion? How does that solve the Zodiark that now exists and the souls removed from the cycle of life giving him power? If they gave her the answer she wanted, are they suddenly worthy of being told the truth?

This is an interesting thought. I mean, what would she have done in that case? If we believe that the density of the sundered's souls is important to defeating Meteion, would she have tried to convince everyone that they had to surrender themselves to having their souls torn apart anyway...?

[Lauront]

This is an interesting thought. I mean, what would she have done in that case? If we believe that the density of the sundered's souls is important to defeating Meteion, would she have tried to convince everyone that they had to surrender themselves to having their souls torn apart anyway...?

The worst part is it only takes a selection of them to accomplish it. The Scions plus whoever joins your party (and of course Emet and Hyth.) So in the hypothetical scenario where they were not sundered, assuming all other methods to allow them to manipulate dynamis would not bear fruit, at most you could say it could be accomplished by agreeing to the sundering of a fraction of their populace (not to the tune of 14x over) and preparing them for this task - again, assuming all other alternatives were exhausted and would not work.

I used to think that a possible reason for her faction's plan to be so unappealing to the remainder of her people was because it may have entailed sundering them to eradicate a symptom mistaken for the cause of the crisis, i.e. creation magicks, but in reality they're not even given that much of a rationale.