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

[RyuDragnier]

As i said a while back my headcanon is that he looks less monstrous when he was complete, and this is just mutations/exaggerations

I think it was always meant to look that way, but the question is who originally came up with the concept that would become Zodiark? Was it another concept that was changed in a way to become the being? Depending on who made the concept (my money is on Lahabrea), Pandaemonium may have the answer...especially since there's hints that Tempering was created there considering how Hesperos acted like somebody who had been heavily Tempered to worship somebody. And since Zodiark tempered the convocation and the Loporrits mentioned that creation magic doesn't do that normally, the tempering was likely a purposefully added feature by somebody.

[Lucida3b]

I think it was always meant to look that way, but the question is who originally came up with the concept that would become Zodiark? Was it another concept that was changed in a way to become the being? Depending on who made the concept (my money is on Lahabrea), Pandaemonium may have the answer...especially since there's hints that Tempering was created there considering how Hesperos acted like somebody who had been heavily Tempered to worship somebody. And since Zodiark tempered the convocation and the Loporrits mentioned that creation magic doesn't do that normally, the tempering was likely a purposefully added feature by somebody.

That just leads to the amusing mental image that lahabrea is a edgelord