When are we supposed to stop fighting?

[KizuyaKatogami]

And yet the people of Palakas Stand did not rally themselves only when Vrtra arrived, they found their own strength.

Simply put I think many are missing the key message here; the issue isn’t that the Ancients or the Sundered were inherently stronger, but that one possessed the means to create an easy solution to their problems that would in turn damn them, while the other is forced to contend with life’s miseries without the easy out. The Sundered are forced to contend with morality, with the inevitability of the end, and in turn come to grapple with despair and meaning in a way the Ancients just couldn’t. Which again, it doesn’t mean their superior at all, they’re just like the Ancients in the vast majority of ways. It’s the mistake of the Ascians to believe that one side need be more worthy to exist.

This is where i’m confused. How exactly is Zodiark an easy solution? It required people sacrificing themselves for other to even create him. How exactly is that an easy solution compared to….the sundered having everything handed to them. From a goddess looking out for them in no way different than Zodiark tbh, to having time travel just thrown into their hands(an ancient had to sacrifice himself to make this possible by the way in case you forgot) and the spaceship we take was done again….via a higher up being. The only thing you can really argue the sundered triumphed in were the ultima thule sequences, but they were able to come back, the ancients weren’t. The ancients had to content with the full force of the final days.They were barely able to handle the towers and the final days hitting some of the city states and thavnair/garlemald. The ancient final days was a world wide threat. The only difference being that the sundered final days actually resulted in peoples souls completely snuffed out with no hopes of reincarnation.