Did Zodiark ever do anything wrong?

[KageTokage]

Yeah, I get that's the message they were trying to get across, but I fundamentally dislike them also trying to push the argument of "It's okay to cause the end of the world and humanity as we know it because you think it's doomed anyways."

It runs contrary to the story's more persistent message of never losing hope when it treated the Ancient world as an absolute failstate instead of something that was simply lost due to a misunderstanding or something else less...calculated.

[thegreatonemal]

Yeah, I get that's the message they were trying to get across, but I fundamentally dislike them also trying to push the argument of "It's okay to cause the end of the world and humanity as we know it because you think it's doomed anyways."

It runs contrary to the story's more persistent message of never losing hope when it treated the Ancient world as an absolute failstate instead of something that was simply lost due to a misunderstanding or something else less...calculated.

There wasn't any think about it. She knew the threat was coming and she knew the threat was still out there even after Zodiark did it's whole barrier thing. She tried and failed to convince them so this was the only way.

[Eisi]

Well Zodiark was the evil one. So it doesn't really matter if he did anything wrong does it? He was the evil one, Hydaelyn was the good one.

There wasn't any think about it. She knew the threat was coming and she knew the threat was still out there even after Zodiark did it's whole barrier thing. She tried and failed to convince them so this was the only way.

True! She told everyone what was going on with Meteion and Dynamis and the truth of the final days. She wanted the ancients to succeed. Still people decided not to listen because they were incapable because of how inferior they were to us... she had to judge them by erasing their bodies and identities and instead replacing them with better stock. Sometimes that's the only way to save the world, no matter how tragic.

On the other hand wait wasn't Venat an ancient as well? So she must have already been kinda sundered I guess for her to be able to understand that something other than Zodiark could be done? For her to actually care I mean. I don't really know tho.