Quote Originally Posted by Thighland View Post
So I have two theories about Pandaemonium
I felt like Pandaemonium was an attempt by the writers to just wrap up any remaining loose ends before moving onto new things. Hydaelyn, Zodiark, and Ultima are all dead so I think it’s unlikely their stories are going to be explored much further.

As far as the “billions of sacrificed” comment, I’m not sure that’s true either.
Extremely long/lived species tend to be fewer in number in fantasy fiction and they just got over a literal apocalypse. In many of the scenes of the Final Days we see many more dead than living and nothing at all in Amaurot is untouched, leaving the entire city a smoldering ruin.

I would be very surprised if half or even a quarter of the original pre-Final Days population of Ancients survived to the end and my impression was that it was part of the reason why Venat and her followers seemed more keen on letting their civilization return to the Star and new life take over. It would only really make sense for that to be an option if your civilization was on the very brink with grim prospects and bringing everything back to how it was. They had to summon a literal god to restore the Star’s health and repopulate it with life, there couldn’t have been many Ancients and all their cities must’ve been completely destroyed if Amaurot is anything to go off of.


Even with that, Hydaelyn wasn’t close to Zodiark’s power at all and had to resort to shattering reality and separating Him into pieces in order to imprison him. I don’t think She stood a chance in a fair fight so there’s no reason for me to believe she had a hidden edge or even a connection to auracite. Dynamis is a weaker force in the presence of heavy amounts of aether as well, so I don’t think that would have helped.