When are we supposed to stop fighting?

[KageTokage]

It's more that the world is attempting to return to its natural state since Zodiark was redirecting aether into the heavens to form a ward against the dynamis. It seems extremely unlikely that such a shift won't have deeper repercussions then simply causing aether sickness in wildlife present in regions where the aether levels are increasing.

The "serpent shedding its skin of old" that the dhyata mentions could be referring to that and it was also mentioned that anomalies were being detected within the Lifestream in the same questline, so this really feels like another calm before a storm.

As for how it could end up leading to future conflict, I feel the source of the problem might be isolated to Meracydia or the New World and we'll inevitably end up getting entangled in their political matters trying to get at it.

[RyuDragnier]

It's more that the world is attempting to return to its natural state since Zodiark was redirecting aether into the heavens to form a ward against the dynamis. It seems extremely unlikely that such a shift won't have deeper repercussions then simply causing aether sickness in wildlife present in regions where the aether levels are increasing.

The "serpent shedding its skin of old" that the dhyata mentions could be referring to that and it was also mentioned that anomalies were being detected within the Lifestream in the same questline, so this really feels like another calm before a storm.

As for how it could end up leading to future conflict, I feel the source of the problem might be isolated to Meracydia or the New World and we'll inevitably end up getting entangled in their political matters trying to get at it.

If not isolated, then cases could end up showing up in both regions as a showing of the Lifestream's changing, perhaps leading to a new world ending threat (if the devs so wished to escalate again). If not, then it'll be a simple case of "go to this region, fix its aether."