Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Maybe just maybe if the current game wasn't so oversaturated with cosmic-level fluff, this beast tribe would've gone over without much fuss.

Though that doesn't solve the issue of these races being given a second chance while Yoshi tells us we're supposed to find the ancients scary.
The only fuss is from a handful of posters on a forum ignored by the vast majority of players, let alone the devs themselves. A single quest was taken out of context from the questline as a whole in order to make another tired “Endwalker bad” post despite the fact that previous expansions have had sillier premises for tribal quests, which almost always have been pure fluff that exists as an excuse to have daily quests.


These races aren’t exactly getting a second chance either, they’re dead and gone. They’re not real people. Some of them are simulations created by another simulation. The whole point of the questline is to let their shades find peace in “death” on a planet named after one of the afterlifes in Greek mythology. What would the point of it all be if we just let them continue fighting or kill them all so as to not endanger the new Dynamis star?


Just because it’s fantasy doesn’t mean it needs to be a grimdark setting where bad stuff always happens and everything is drenched in grey morality. The Lord of the Rings is the father of basically every modern fantasy and it’s considered by some today to be “hopepunk” and it’s preachy in themes of hope in lost causes and friendship surmounting pure evil.

The Ancients were written and created by Yoshi-P and his team. They don’t have a specific agenda of spiting them just to make posters on the forum upset. Like what we’re doing with the people in Ultima Thule, their society collapsed but the dead have now accepted it after their loss and moved on just like you should too.