Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
I have a habit of following precedent towards the right questions to ask, and then the thing that "can't happen" happens specifically because at the last second they undermine the very thing I was focused on, so I'm having a BLAST, lol.

Even in this very thread, I'm highlighting how Elidibus has been disintegrated so "Even if his aether was consumed by the tower rather than the sea, the integrity of his soul is compromised, so how can he not be gone?"

And then Endwalker is like, "Well, that's true, buuut..."

I was so stoked when Endwalker validated that so long as Fandaniel identified as Fandaniel his tempering should have been restored (assuming Eden told an accurate story).
For 10 seconds.
Until he revealed he had been rejecting Hermes and identifying as Amon all along.

"......Oh, no."
This is honestly where the game jumped the shark for me. Time travel shenanigans aside, the moment they decided to have Elidabus stay intact called a lot of established lore into question. Even by revealing Emet and co as mostly intact and able to be recalled by the WoL felt sloppy to me. It just screamed “there is a way to being back dead ascians, but thank god the ones you do bring back don’t care about living anymore”.

God forbid someone figures out how to bring back Lahabrea, because for all we currently know it is entirely possible he’s just hanging out in the life stream.

I’ve written it elsewhere, but sometimes it’s better to just let the story be the story as planned from the beginning (aka being ring to mount doom; defeat the Fire Emperor) and NOT a 11th hour Scooby-Doo enemy that requires massive shifts in established lore.

I enjoy the game for what it is, but doing lore speculation really lost its luster on the grand scheme of things when the rug constantly gets pulled out from under you.