Quote Originally Posted by Aline_D View Post
You forgot the MAJOR part where the sundered are more capable of surviving the cataclysms the other civilizations suffered, particularly Utopias like the Ea or the masked people that committed mass suicide due to ennui.

The storyline of Elpis directly shows they were heading straight into this, or killing themselves with how cavalier they were with creating dangerous lifeforms (and this technically still happened since Meteion was the catalyst for their downfall). Hydalin tried to inoculate us against this danger.

The story is not really clear if what she did will work or if it was the best solution, but going back to Amaraut would definitely be a death sentence.
All of the ends we saw were ones that the sundered world is in no way immune to falling victim to; Nibirun included because unlike the Ancients, they started off as flawed mortals who eventually became obsessed with "perfection" and tried to cast away their woes, only to lose their joys in the process.

I also feel a touch disinclined to think the Ancient world was so horribly flawed and doomed to die when by all accounts it had already persisted for countless millenia whilst maintaining an overall better state of being for man and beast alike. The whole Meteion situation only blew up because someone decided to blatantly sidestep safety protocol and then the one who actually had power to do something about it in the moment chose not to.