Is it time for a second Dragonsong War?

[Cleretic]

One point worth remembering is that when Alexander was summoned, it calculated out the outcomes of every possible timeline, including one in which it intervened to prevent the Seventh Umbral Calamity from ever happening. On review of all these, its final judgement was to preserve the existing timeline and remove itself from it by creating a time loop. By that same logic, you'd think that people would hold it responsible for all the bad things that ever happened in the universe, but people generally don't perceive things that way.

That's an interesting point; I've never really thought about why Alex never gets brought up here like that. I personally don't blame it because it was always thinking in terms of its own drain on aether; no matter what happened, it was always the problem, so Alexander can never act to prevent anything except itself. Even then, you would've thought that it could've used the time it was incontrovertibly, unavoidably alive to give us some useful info like 'carry white auracite more often', 'pose some guards around Asahi's corpse', or 'don't trust a word a woman named Misija ever says'.

Perhaps the reason Alexander didn't even do any of that was because there wasn't any guidance that would've led to a better outcome. We were already on the right path, as slim as our chances were, and no piece of advice or information was ever going to increase those chances.

Or maybe Alexander gets off scot-free around here because it's a cool robot that exists largely isolated from all other storylines, and not a woman who stands in moral opposition to the local favorite cute boy.