Zodiark's Codex entry what do we think about it?

[Brinne]

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I think this perspective - focusing on the awkward writing decisions and process that led us to a rather uncomfortable place - is also fair, and IIRC, I’ve had some good exchanges with you, Mikko, on the more Doylist perspective of the writers accidentally stepping on a bunch of Ancient and Hydaelyn-related rakes.

I will say, too, that in the Shadowbringers era, while I felt strongly about the overtones at the time that the Final Days were a senseless tragedy the Ancients never deserved, when it came to the Hydaelyn and Zodiark conflict, under the assumption that the Sundering and annihilation of the Ancients must have been an accident, Hydaelyn seemed pretty clearly more sympathetic and in the right (although basically lying and covering up history after the fact was not great, an interesting gray tinge to the narrative would be welcome too.)

Endwalker’s reveals and how we were obviously being asked to feel about them were subsequently, um, baffling. And, not going to lie, pretty depressing.