So, 38 pages of notes from a variety of sources, on a variety of issues ...

A couple of questions I had as reading. Perhaps there are direct answers?

1) The Final Days for the Ancients ... exactly how long between the eradication of memory for the Triad and their beginning? Days? Years? Decades? Millenia?

2) Is there a direct reference to the cause? In other words, where, exactly, is The Cause explicitly explained/invoked? I didn't come across that yet, and I'm sitting at the final trial right now. All of those other fine civilizations seemed to destroy themselves quite nicely without intervention.

3) Who would have believed Venat's recounting of the days before the eradication of memory for the Triad? Since the Ancients cannot detect dynamis, how would they verify the validity of any warning, given that the Triad could swear it never happened?

4) What references do you all have that Zodiark would actually have surrendered "souls" (with newly created bodies) back to the Ancients? Is there a document or cut-scene where Zodiark promises to do so if he only gets a "bit more Aether"? Could it be the desperate logic of traumatized people who are now dependent on a God-like being? I'd want to read the actual contract myself before assuming it was more than what every other Primal we've ever encountered desires rather than wishful thinking.