Quote Originally Posted by Thenightvortex View Post
1. There is nothing to suggest that Zodiark needs sacrifices to sustain himself. Neither the second or the third sacrifice have been done with the intent to sustain him, nor after the sundering, as has been mentioned above.
What do you use as an anchor to support the suggestion that Zodiark would ever release the souls whose Aether they have consumed already? Or that this was possible in the first place?

It's bandied about that the end game was to restore the Ancients, including their aether, to their former glory. What was the actual textual basis for this assumption?

I've seen this so often, but never actually read anything concrete to support this belief, other than some words of Emet-Selch, who has been tempered by Zodiark and, while he might believe what he says, there is no signed (or even verbal) contract I've found in-game to support that belief.