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

[Lauront]

To me, it's morally grey if they expect us to suspend all critical thinking abilities and not look at how the sundered, or humans for that matter, kill lesser creatures for much less. I don't doubt that they were, to some extent, pushing this idea that they're not "perfect", although whatever the intention, even with all that in mind, the ancients are about as close as a species can come to it, IMO.

This was so strange to me as well, I remember thinking "...OK? Thanks for the robe, man!" It was so awkward that this was clearly meant to be a moment where the writers assumed I'd be horrifically offended; but I wasn't at all, nor did I think that my character, who murders animals all of the time for FUN and PROFIT would be rattled in any way. She definitely would not be be judging others for it. I was also obviously supposed to be utterly offended at being called a "thing" but again, who the hell cares? To them I was a creature unlike any they had ever seen before. I look nothing like them or the humans they know, not even like any familiars they know, so there's no reason for them to see me as anything but an unusual entity. The attempts to move me to Twitter levels of outrage over the way the Ancients viewed life were clumsy as shit.

I mean I was doing the sidequests on a reaper, with an avatar sidekick that devours the souls of beings for fuel, and did the main quests with a relic weapon forged from crystallised misery, having routinely partaken in the outdoors slaughterfests known as fates. At this point, if they're expecting me to take the character's "shock" seriously, it just paints them as delusional.

[PawPaw]

I mean I was doing the sidequests on a reaper, with an avatar sidekick that devours the souls of beings for fuel, and did the main quests with a relic weapon forged from crystallised misery, having routinely partaken in the outdoors slaughterfests known as fates. At this point, if they're expecting me to take the character's "shock" seriously, it just paints them as delusional.

Right? "Pardon me, my good fellows, I must take my leave as apparently there is an S-Rank beast in this zone that needs to be attacked and murdered for no real reason AND I'd like to get the orchestration roll for Elpis so I'll need to follow that up with the mass slaughter of every animal that I find within these pink spots on my map. You guys are so cruel to arcane entities though, btw, do better. Cheerio!"

[Lauront]

Right? "Pardon me, my good fellows, I must take my leave as apparently there is an S-Rank beast in this zone that needs to be attacked and murdered for no real reason AND I'd like to get the orchestration roll for Elpis so I'll need to follow that up with the mass slaughter of every animal that I find within these pink spots on my map. You guys are so cruel to arcane entities though, btw, do better. Cheerio!"

And do be sure to pay no mind to the egi that may or may not die in the process.

[Ixon]

And do be sure to pay no mind to the egi that may or may not die in the process.

Care to join me in Frontlines where we slaughter our allies and countrymen for fun? XD

[Lauront]

Care to join me in Frontlines where we slaughter our allies and countrymen for fun? XD

Already had my fill of that today... I think by the 5th or 6th time of telling people to open their maps and that, no, tunnel visioning the team that's 300 points behind isn't really a good idea when the other one is 200 ahead of us... today was another episode of the dead ends of FL.

[Ixon]

Already had my fill of that today... I think by the 5th or 6th time of telling people to open their maps and that, no, tunnel visioning the team that's 300 points behind isn't really a good idea when the other one is 200 ahead of us... today was another episode of the dead ends of FL.

Well, just like the Dead Ends it's a lot easier with summoned help to share the despair with. you can even sacrifice them just the same so you can move forward.