Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
You already said yourself that the second half of the same cutscene is metaphorical. I don't know how you can't see that it extends to the whole thing.

Venat walks through ruined Amaurot telling of the events back then as scenes she describes unfold around her happening directly with her narration despite the fact they could not have happened all close together like that. Then you have things like monsters killing people while Venat just watches, seconds before Hytholodeus parts from Emet-Selch and calmly walks past the same monster that just ate somebody and the monster doesn't even notice him. After the sword scene is another walking scene with events happening around her again like the first half of the cutscene, all to the same music and the same pace of the narration.

It makes zero sense for this to be presented as a writer's take on true events and to think that it is, you'd have to be super dense.


I would have rather had a cutscene that goes over the restoration of Etheirys and the actual battle, but they went with a super condensed metaphorical version for the art and to push the angle she went with on clipping the wings of the Ancients. I disagree with it, but it doesn't mean that the writers randomly had brain fungus and forgot the whole lore of the game that Shadowbringers brought up just for this one cutscene and then went back to the rest of the game fitting with the real events right after. There is no conspiracy they're trying to cover up, just a cutscene that apparently went over your head.
Look, people want to defend this cutscene by saying its not a retcon because it's just a metaphor. Show me what part of this cutscene accurately portrays, literally or metaphorically, the events of the sundering from shadowbringers.

What is the metaphor for etheirys being restored to its habitable state? What is the metaphor for the major battle between hydaelyn and zodiark that sunders etheirys?