What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[KageTokage]

I think "OG" as in before we really knew any deeper details about her and the situation was made out to be a very black and white sort of conflict.

I'd rather they have just doubled down on that approach rather then inject some moral greyness into the matter in ShB, then skirt around it as much as possible in EW.

[MagiusNecros]

I think "OG" as in before we really knew any deeper details about her and the situation was made out to be a very black and white sort of conflict.

I'd rather they have just doubled down on that approach rather then inject some moral greyness into the matter in ShB, then skirt around it as much as possible in EW.

Correct. Venat and Hydaelyn feel like 2 different characters. The grey morality really kills all they built up and threw all their eggs in one basket with the Ancients.

They took this Paragon of "purity" and turned it into a character that in their own idealism destroyed their own world to delay it's complete destruction and imparted perpetual suffering as the denizens just reward.

More curious is if Hydaelyn was the heart or core of Eorzea what pray tell was the heart of Etheirys?

Shadowbringers was building up to some pretty big stuff in a intricate way but a lot of it just became a lot of throwaway material for a quick and lazy resolution.

You see this all over the place in Endwalker with it's myriad of pacing issues.

But given how they threw away Garlemald so quickly this isn't that much of a surprise to me.

[KageTokage]

More curious is if Hydaelyn was the heart or core of Eorzea what pray tell was the heart of Etheirys?

There's a bunch of dialogue in various places like a Sharlayan scholar desiring "the truth that lies at the heart of our star" and that weird prophecy from Studium that's making me hopeful there's still some big secrets about the nature of the world itself that will come to light but...it's hard to say if that's going to be a thing until 6.5 and the 7.x preview starts painting a more clear picture of the future.