Sundering stuff established in the Q&A

[MikkoAkure]

While i may not exactly regard said themes or textual parts as “meta” myself, the themes along the lines of suffering, learning to deal with loss, moving forward instead of being tied to the past etc. These have all been contradicted by things like the scions suffering level being incredibly low, them being brought back at the end of UT, the 8UC timeline where they were willing to sacrifice the entire timeline to bring the wol back etc etc.

I don’t necessarily believe the Scions were required to suffer a lot for the sake of “themes”. Unless you just don’t like them. Plus anyone who thought they weren’t coming back at the end hasn’t been paying attention to the extremely saccharine and overall general overly positive vibes of the game’s story all the way back to ARR. There was no way they were going to end the entire decade’s worth of story on a bittersweet note.

You also seem hung up on one line from a short side story not present in the game itself about a scenario that was only a possibility and didn’t even come to pass. And the reason the WoL had to come back wasn’t specifically to “save the hero” it was because that moment led to a chain reaction that would eventually lead to the end of all of the worlds and the full Rejoining.

Can I just say I had completely forgotten about this? Has this been touched on since ARR? There's that whole flashback Cid has where he remembers us giving him his goggles or something right before Carteneau, right? Then flash forward 5 years and aside from a couple of lines in ARR they just kinda dropped that whole "No one remembers what happened" plotline entirely? Was this hinted at in 1.0? I wasn't around for the end of that.

The missing memories part from the Calamity is referenced and explained in the Endwalker MSQ. Something to do with a lot of aether being released that is similar to the type of aether memories are made of and washing it all out, similar to the memory block magic the Forum members had.