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

[KizuyaKatogami]

I would have to go over our conversations with Venat to answer that question regarding her, but I don't think it's related to Elidibus and his promise.

I also feel like a lot of people have latched onto the idea that "Elidibus will promise us something during the Pandæmonium storyline" when the resolution seems far more simple and presented within what we have already seen.

He took up the seat of Elidibus, and at that time would have made vows to the Convocation to uphold the duties of the seat. And then everything happens and now his memories are fading. Look at those quotes you included: first he forgets to whom he swore the promise, and then the promise itself. He is becoming a shell of himself, with no memory of why and what he is fighting for.

I'm still not really keen that they twisted his original role in the story into this – it rings a little much of the writers not being sure how he could be defeated, so they undermined him instead – but for what he is in 5.X it does a good job of showing how much his mind and memories are crumbling.

It’s sad to think that, had they gone with their plan of 1-2 more expansions, how much better Elidibus could have been as a character. I think it’s very easy to see he was rushed, but he still managed to be incredibly compelling in the short span of time we got him. Imagine an entire expansion of him getting his arc and seeing how he ticks and all that. I wonder if it could have topped base shb.

[Iscah]

It’s sad to think that, had they gone with their plan of 1-2 more expansions, how much better Elidibus could have been as a character. I think it’s very easy to see he was rushed, but he still managed to be incredibly compelling in the short span of time we got him. Imagine an entire expansion of him getting his arc and seeing how he ticks and all that. I wonder if it could have topped base shb.

For the direction he was ticking in, I can't see an additional expansion doing anything to his character besides a lot more vague declarations about his duty and the proper course of the star, and a slower decline into memory loss.

[anhaato]

It’s sad to think that, had they gone with their plan of 1-2 more expansions, how much better Elidibus could have been as a character. I think it’s very easy to see he was rushed, but he still managed to be incredibly compelling in the short span of time we got him. Imagine an entire expansion of him getting his arc and seeing how he ticks and all that. I wonder if it could have topped base shb.

Elidibus lasted all of two and a half expansions, I think he was done just fine. Rather, they needed the extra expansion time for Garlemald and Thavnair more than anything.