Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
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Might as well be because his attitude is what makes him capable to salvage creations that others would've discarded without a giving much thought (just like the flightless creation Emet-Selch is goaded into helping to avoid having Hermes embarrasing himself). Which is more responsible and more effective than simply creating discarding then creating new concept from zero. It's not weird from an outside perspective to make the most of everything, neither from pragmatism nor from moralism.

And I don't think anybody has an issue with the 2 first sacrifice, since they were willingly done and were clearly a last ditch resource. It's the third sacrifice where the issue is found. Moreover, it bears to mind that, while it wasn't the ill-intended side effect of the modern primals, those that helped carry out the summoning were still tempered. It's really hard to say how that kind of tempering works, since we don't have any clear example of it(and it's one of the things that irks me about both Shadowbringers and Endwalker), but, at the very least, it would assure that, even after the 3 sacrifice, things wouldn't really be the same way they were before. For all the plans they laid out, they could've deviated to plain fanatism and start to hinge on Zodiark for every woe. Or their magicks could tip to dark aspect (as a matter of facts, that seems to be what happens to Ascians, who don't casts "True" spells but "Dark" spells) which could create another crisis like a bigger World of Darkness. They're hypothesis, but that's not different from assuming the Ancients would simply go on with no further issues, because not even them can really see into the future and their plans do not always go as they intend, as theory and practices are two different things.

Also, it's really a wild assumption to assume Elidibus actions just based on... a single line?. Not to mention it contradicts with Emet statement that Zodiark and Hydaelyn fought until Hydaelyn finally sundered, unless Elidibus commanded Zodiark to fight Hydaelyn while trying to mediate peace which sounds as contradictory as it gets. For all we care, it could even mean he was trying to temper (with no ill intention, weird as it sounds) them into joining the cause or he could've been just insisting them that their way was the just one frantically, which could've actually worsened the situation. Maybe he did it when Hydaelyn wasn't summoned but, after that, could've realized there was no talking out of it. There is a lot of assumptions that could be made but, in the end, they're just assumptions.