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

[jameseoakes]

I'm sorry, but what? I'm used to seeing bad faith takes and misinterpretations, but I have absolutely no idea what you could've possibly misread to think this was happening at all.

Did you mistype and mean Athena, or have you misunderstood something so critically that I can't even recognize it? Because Venat never touched the aetherial sea, and deliberately abstained from taking in any aether of any form, even to the detriment of her own health.

No I meant Venat with her massive crystal of aether she's leached from the life stream after she sets up there after making herself a primal and entrenching herself in the aetherial sea

[MikkoAkure]

No I meant Venat with her massive crystal of aether she's leached from the life stream after she sets up there after making herself a primal and entrenching herself in the aetherial sea

She lives in the Aetherial Sea, but I don't remember dialogue about harvesting from it. I was under the impression that she IS the Mothercrystal and that it contained and was powered by the souls that were sacrificed for her summoning, with the souls being completely used up specifically because she didn't sip the aether of the world.

[Kozh]

She lives in the Aetherial Sea, but I don't remember dialogue about harvesting from it. I was under the impression that she IS the Mothercrystal and that it contained and was powered by the souls that were sacrificed for her summoning, with the souls being completely used up specifically because she didn't sip the aether of the world.

Nah, mothercrytal is aether from the aetherial sea she harnessed and crystalized over the years after she "became the will of the star". She probably did it little by little as to not damage the Star (that much). She hide behinds it every time she called people there, so people assume that hydaelyn = mothercrystal.

[MikkoAkure]

Nah, mothercrytal is aether from the aetherial sea she harnessed and crystalized over the years after she "became the will of the star". She probably did it little by little as to not damage the Star (that much). She hide behinds it every time she called people there, so people assume that hydaelyn = mothercrystal.

I looked up the scene and she says that after she became the Will of the Star, the aether drawn there began crystalizing to create the Mothercrystal and it became the Will of the Star in her place as a "faceless, omnipotent force of nature", which is probably the truest sense of "Will of the Star" over herself and Zodiark. She doesn't say anything about doing it herself or parasiting aether.