Don’t worry pal, in 3 expansions when the remaining shards have been exhausted with a bizarre series of murder-suicides and someone has spent 10 minutes of cutscene budget pouring the remnants of zodiark and that golbez memorial crystal down the pc’s throat, I’m confident the wol will be azem. The door to elpis is still open, just needs moved back a little further for the warrior of light to always have been azem. All mention of divergent species and inability to use creation magic will need glossed over, but for the former just play hyur and the latter is basically praying really hard. Actually playing hyur isn’t even necessary given the ancient’s propensity for anonymising robes and masks who would really be able to tell if they were a lalafell? Given what we know about them, it would be a faux pas to ask.

Speaking of bizarre murder-suicides, if dawntrial does draw heavy inspiration from ff5, it could well incorporate another excursion across the void and thus incidental acquisition of soul fragment.