Would Endwalker have been better if we never visited Elpis at all?

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Edit: My opinion on OP's question is that the narrative would have been no different with or without Elpis inclusion. The events that took place there had already occurred by the point we were in the narrative, so it didn't matter.

3. Venat becoming the Jesus Christ figure who decided to flip the universal table and sunder the universe, destroying everything and locking what we were told was basically "the devil" for 10 years in the same reality that our characters were in

Friend, with all due respect, no.
Venat sundered Etheirys exclusively.

The sundering did not effect anything out of the star's direct influence; likely only those things within the veil of aether Zodiark used to shield the star from Dynamis (although this is speculation on my part), and the Shards/reflections exist within paradoxical pocket dimensions.

This is why Midgardsormr and his brood are so incredibly strong and aether rich compared to the sundered life of Etheirys— they are whole, unsundered beings.

Further: how could she sunder the entire known universe when she used only a fraction of a fraction of the population of Etheriys remaining to perform the act, when Zodiark needed half of an entire super earth to stop the final days? A much smaller act than the impossibly herculean task of sundering an entire plane of existence on a universal scale.

No, it was just the planet and nothing more.

Also:

i would also suggest splitting meteion and the endsinger into 2 separate characters and have meteion and endsinger

They were. The Meteia created the nest where they gathered the souls of the dead, said souls became the Endsinger alongside the other Meteia. Which is why when we encounter it they when confronting you alone they say "as we did, as we died." Indicating it is the amalgamation of the dead souls that the Meteia collected and stored in the Dead Sun to end the cycle of death and rebirth in the universe. It is highly likely that the Endsinger did not exist up until that point and was created as desperation move to confront us physical after we overturned the Meteia's power over Ultima Thule.


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Oh and another note, I'm not going to jump into the major debates here, because wow that's a horrible life decision, but... as a writer I have to ask that people quit using coercive and manipulative verbiage and phrasing to get their point across.

I've seen the phrases "genocide apologist" and "genocide sympathizer" among others used in many threads, and that needs to stop. It's manipulative and serves only to garner a negative response from those reading your post. Many of the arguments, debates and vitriol in these threads can be avoided if people opt to use neutral, non-accusatory language intended to encourage debate, rather than thinly veiled and or subtle insults and criticisms of one's personal, individual character over their opinion of a fake, fantasy, non-important video game narrative.

Debate and discussion is a two way street and if one starts with a bad faith argument or accusation before even stating their point, then that individual has already indicated that they do not want to discuss anything and only wish prove that they have the moral high ground.