Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
Are you talking about the slower Aether collection bit? That was probably due to the prepping of the first and the source for a light aspected calamity?
I'm not sure what you mean, I wasn't referring to events surrounding the First.

Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
It was explained in ShB that neither Zodiark nor Hydaelyn required massive aether consumption under normal conditions because of the abundance of aether in the Ancients sacrificed to summon them. Modern primals require obscene amounts of aether because they are comparatively Aether-starved.
Meaning, she should clearly have more than enough aether for a phone call.

Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
A fight which burned through her soul. All of the other aether was intended to ensure humanity could get to Ultima Thule.
Yes, a trial she didn't even need to undertake. But again, that other aether was hardly "intended to ensure" anything, given it just coalesced through coincidence. And once more, she exists in a nigh-infinite realm of pure aether. There is no reason for her to have wanted for energy to contact WoL.

Who could’ve seen this coming!
Based on what he says there and what the group says in the recording... Not them, apparently.

but I think the fact that the one memory left was his vow should show that it’s not really the circumstances of his creation that makes him biased, but the person he was based on.
To a degree. But the fact that he had other memories stripped from him does very much have to do with the circumstances of his creation.