Quote Originally Posted by Teah_Kaye View Post
I think part of it for the Ea was that they made themselves effectively immortal, so they had to live with the knowledge that they'd personally witness the end of the universe and everything they learned and did would cease to be.

Whereas all of us will be long, long dead by the time that stuff happens in the real universe, so it feels easy to brush it off and go on with our lives.
This. I will say though, it is kind of baffling that the Ea could really find no solution to the entropy of the universe at all. Even the concept of heat-death seems pretty incongruent with the existence of magic to begin with. It's not like this is reality where the laws of physics operate as we know them.

Something I've been thinking about recently is the nature of the sampling bias involved in the civilizations Meteion shows us. Not only were they chosen to paint the most hopeless picture possible, but by the nature of her powers they were also obviously susceptible to her attacks. The worlds that we see don't account for any other beings that might have had the ability to shield themselves from Dynamis, or operate on fundamentally different levels somehow. For example the Omicrons didn't exactly succumb to despair, it's more like they fell into a logic loop. In a similar way without the shield protecting Etheirys humanity also would have been consumed by Meteion's attack and been relegated to her example pile of failed societies, in the past or the present. So I wonder if there's more out there that we simply don't know about at the moment.