Quote Originally Posted by AlexionSkyllark View Post
The main reasons for her doing that are, yes, to diminish our Aether so we could have a chance at manipulating Dynamis so we could oppose Meteion, but also, and that's an even bigger reason, the fact that by expelling us from the paradise and making us into less-perfect creatures who "don't fly, and instead walk" as she puts it, she FORESTALLED OUR END. The civilization of the unsundered world was on a sure path to become one other of the myriad ones in the cosmos who would meet their end - they were following in the footsteps of the Ea and the 17th planet (the one from the 3rd section of the dead ends dungeon). Upon achieving perfection, they'd fall into apathy and probably "return to the star" en masse, commiting mass suicide and ending their civilization. They ALREADY HINTED during the Elpis arc that it's par for the course for them to just kill themselves when they feel their task in life is accomplished. So, by making us flawed and imperfect, she gave our world a new lease on life, an eternal struggle towards perfection that is unattainable, incomplete as we are.

I would wager that the Sundering is the main reason why Etheirys managed to avert sharing the fate of the other planets in the cosmos, and become the "sole beacon of hope in the cosmos", as Midgarsormr puts it.
I am happy because Yoshi-P pretty much confirmed all I said here in the Live Letter 68 that happened yesterday <3
I think we can nail that coffin once and for all in this front.