What's most disappointing is despite this being hyped as a decade long saga, fact of the matter is the Ascians (and Zodiark) had little development until ShB. Hydaelyn had some in HW, most of which was Minfilia related. Frankly, I didn't care about the Ascians until ShB. They seemed like generic villains in a mustache-twirling cult of chaos that worshipped a generic dark god. Then 5.0 happened and I was hooked only for Yoshi-P to decide that story's over next expansion. People just learned 2 - not 10 - 2 years ago that their WoL is a reincarnated Ancient, one of the Convocation of Fourteen, who happened to be BFFs with the best character in the entire game and we're just done with that?! (I'm factoring in the expansion timeline. As someone who recently started playing in September I found out about all this only months ago.)

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By the way, I wish you the best of luck in repeating this exact same argument over and over again when people want to debate Ancient morality for the next 10 years to come. Now you've got a new source to quote from!
I already asked in lore if we could finally lay to rest that the sundering had anything to do with continued sacrifices to Zodiark and was responded to with a long-winded no. :P