Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
This is why you don't understand the Hydaelyn hate. This is so wildly different than frankly any interpretation I've seen I'm kind of fascinated how you arrived at it. (Not to mention full on veering into headcanon, but that's par for the course around here.)
What do you mean?

They VERY CLEARLY had a culture of racial supremacy. This is shown outright in the Elpis quests and was shown in ShB with Emet's conversations about us not really being alive and being lesser beings.

They were literally growing what WE would consider sentient life forms to use as chattel sacrifices to Zodiark. Mass slavery, Human sacrifice, and ecological sacrifice (they were also going to do this with plant life) was 100% part of their objective to generate enough energy to give Zodiark to restore the Ancients that were sacrificed to summon him.

They were Tempered. That's been made crystal clear. Emet even mentions it as just being par for the course with Summoning such a powerful being, as if it was totally to be expected. While they have freedom in how they carry out the will of their god (unlike Tempered lesser beings), they are still absolutely devoted to Zodiark and his restoration - unless they happen to be bat-shite insane (Amon). Them being what we would define irl as religious zealots is clearly laid out in the MSQ.

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For you NOT to see any of this - and, indeed, to question how I arrived at it - makes me wonder if you skip cutscenes or something. Each of those points was made very clear in the MSQ.