Is it time for a second Dragonsong War?

[Iscah]

Now my question is, if someone were to reveal to Hraesvelgr, currently, that Hydaelyn had a tracker on the bird for over 13,000 years, wouldn't that spark a 2nd Dragonsong War, this time of all dragons against all non dragons?
-Hydaelyn knew the ascians were not the real enemy, yet had the dragons pit against them and sacrifice countless of their children to them
-Hydaelyn knew the dragons were capable of interstellar travel, as much as they were probably not immune to the song of the end, she could at least fashion some protection, let's call it the blessing of light, or echo, that protected them against turning into monstrosities
-Whatever the Omicrons did to the dragons, it would be at least comparable to what the Allagan Empire and the Heavens' Ward did to them, and while the Omicrons were at least evil and did it for a reason, the ascians who machinated all these atrocities against the dragons weren't even the real enemy

As EaraGrace already covered, most of the battles that the dragons fought on Etheirys had nothing to do with Hydaelyn's pact with Midgardsormr, and instead were direct feuds between the Meracydian dragons and the Allagan Empire, and later Nidhogg and the Ishgardians.

Additionally, Midgardsormr is here in the first place because he fled his home star, ultimately because of Omega, but apparently it was under the combined assault from both the Omicrons and Meteion's despair. Even if Hydaelyn knew that was what he was fleeing, and could tell him where Meteion was hiding, that doesn't mean he would want to try to face her. He and his children are safe here, his home world is already destroyed, and he probably isn't capable of fighting Meteion anyway.

For all we know, maybe she did tell him and he wasn't interested in going.

(Am I remembering right that one of his children told us he described Etheirys as the last bastion of hope, or something to that effect? That would suggest he at least knows that the rest of the universe is lacking Zodiark's protection, which would further suggest that he also knows what Zodiark is providing protection against.)

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'.

Alexander isn't really the direct-communication sort, but those bits of advice aren't necessarily useful anyway (except re. Misija perhaps). The Scions seem quite aware by now that they want auracite on hand whenever possible, and Urianger seems to be regularly producing new ones. And as for Fandaniel, firstly if he doesn't possess Asahi then he'll probably just find someone else, and secondly - as you said - it may be that it ultimately is just part of the precise path of events that will lead us to Meteion and successfully resolving the whole thing.

Yeeeeeeaaaah, ngl I really was thinking Endwalker would have... I dunno, just more regarding the lore they told us to pay attention to and go back and play (namely, Ishikawa told us to replay the Coils and Omega). I defs thought there was something off when instead of using the literal Ragnarok that was already present in the Coils and gift-wrapped for us by the long-dead Allagans instead of Sharlayan's Normandy SR-II clone.

I think playing those quests supported the lore we get in Endwalker while maintaining the "no direct follow-on unless the quest is mandatory for MSQ beforehand" rule.

The Binding Coil is key family history for the Leveilleurs and also for your own relationship with Alisaie. It also means you've seen the original Ragnaroks (which don't seem particularly ready to use) to get that callback.

And being familiar with Omega just means you're going to get a lot more recognition out of its appearances in Ultima Thule. The first clues I had of what was going on there were recognising the Omega-style architecture in the fort and then looking around and realising that this was the ruins of Midgardsormr's world as shown in the Alphascape battle with him.

And then of course there's getting to the Omicron base and recognising the architecture on a large scale, so you start connecting the dots with it, instead of it probably looking completely alien and unfamiliar to a non-Omega player.

It also establishes that Midgardsormr is currently sleeping off the encounter with Omega, not just absent for reasons unknown.

Also, per the dragons it seems like a missed opportunity to me that Middy didn't wake up or even stir at all in the presence of members of his people he didn't know personally.

Midgardsormr was never in the presence of unfamiliar dragons to my awareness. Are you thinking he's still travelling with us? His consciousness has withdrawn to Silvertear Lake and the minion is just decorative now. He says that when he leaves us in the Omega quests.