Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
The events in Meracydia aren't linked to the Dragonsong War. If you have evidence the Ascians were involved in telling Thordan I to slaughter Ratatoskr and devour her eyes or telling Nidhogg to enact 1k years' worth of revenge upon Ishgardians for it, then by all means.

It's not meant to soften the blow, it's meant to clarify. I'll also say again, rejoinings wouldn't have been a thing without the sundering in the first place.
It's pretty hard to prove direct link between Ascians because they make sure to not leave marks in history. Also, the rejoining wouldn't have happened if the Ascians had accepted their world was over or actually tried to do the same, WoL, do, try to improve their lives instead. They're the culprits and the ones responsible for the rejoinings in the same way Venat is responsible for the sundering.


Ah, no. The day was barely won by the WoL who had been groomed for it from the start and given every tool past, present, and future to ensure success, which included the assistance of the unsundered. (Noting that were it not for Emet's sentimentality he would've likely killed the WoL on the spot on the First, so the WoL also had to be a reincarnated Azem for this to play out as well.) Mankind without the WoL and their links to the unsundered absolutely fails to defeat Meteion.
Links Venat had accounted for (she was the one who carried Emet to the aetherial sea). And most of the struggle to fight Meteion would've failed if mankind as a whole hadn't supported WoL in any stage, such as refined adamantite and the Garlean contingent. The entire point of the story is ultimately: Help the world get their shit together and see how your deeds carry over. Everyone contributed. It's absurd to overthink the classic trope of the hero being supported by those he saved.