Quote Originally Posted by Travel View Post
That's actually what I'm doing now; I'm going to be going back and completing the side-quests - which I never do - as well as talk to the different NPCs, just so I can do more story stuff.

Which game are you talking about, by the way? Is it FF: Tactics? I know XIV takes a lot from that game.



The MSQ makes it pretty clear that the Ancients were more concerned with restoring their status quo than they were actually fixing the problem; from what I can gather, the Ancients were too used to paradise to really consider any alternatives. They seemed to have been too broken by despair to really try and make a difference - maybe "complacent" isn't the best word here - but when Venat confronted the group summoning Zodiark to try and get them to try and pick themselves up and move on, they instead went through with the summoning to try and get their old paradise back, despite that being impossible. In other words, they kept trying to focus on the past instead of looking towards the future.
The group she talked with wasn’t summoning Zodiark, that scene is metaphorical and represents different points of the timeline. By that time Zodiark was already there and they are present worshipers.

You say that they didn’t fix the problem and didn’t look to the future, but how do you envision it? They tried to restore their home and rebuild just like the sundered did after the last calamity, why is it wrong? It was hard for them to deal with grief(figures considering they lost 75% of their population), but they did the best they could considering they did not know of the source of the Final Days(concealed by Venat btw)

Basically, what I’m asking is what in your opinion they should’ve done which would ‘earn them the right’ to not be sundered?