What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Teraq]

Dude, I thought this was just going to be a Q&A, not a "the devs are going to go and personally confirm every single one of Teraq's worst fears about the story of Endwalker and what it very obviously implied about the Ancients being bad and not deserving a future" session.

I'm pouring one out for the most tragic character in the entire saga, who doomed his entire civilisation and people with a time loop that would influence Venat to take the actions she did, and lived for 12,000 years apparently hiding his amnesia well enough for Emet-Selch to only ponder it circa Stormblood according to the Tales From The Shadows.

Also, I loved that Zenos's dreams actually amounted to nothing and that Fandaniel's musing on Emet-Selch was just "Hmmmm... I guess Emet-Selch fucks". I mean. Obviously, Danny. Look at the guy.

Honestly it's a real shame Final Fantasy XIV's storyline stopped at 5.3. I would have loved to see where it would go from there. Ah well. I guess we will never know.

I could ask the same for the sundered. After the walking plot-armor that is the WoL (a.k.a us the players) died, hundreds or thousand years later, what stopping them from making the same mistake as the Ea/dragons/omicron? Or the Ancients themselves even. We know from the Allag Empire era that the sundered isn't that much different from the Ancients. They seek prosperity, then they stagnated. Or perhaps they will go in the direction of the second world of "Dead Ends".

I'm sorry Kozh, but you can only draw Dead Ends / Ultima Thule parallels with the Ancients. I don't make the rules, all right?
(Also, let's not forget to mention the first world of Dead Ends: Emet explicitly made note that the Sundered were susceptible to disease, after all. I see no reason why such a scenario wouldn't simply start as soon as tomorrow.)