Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
It's just really awkward to come back from "gods are all myth" to say "Actually the gods in this one backwater region of the planet are actually real". Especially since they don't actually do anything except accepting prayer and they have no real, tangible impact on the story or the setting before or after they leave.
Except they do have a tangible purpose. It was to keep the world stable after the sundering, and then the calamities after that. This is explicitly told to us during one of the cutscenes.

Also, the name of this raid series was literally “Myths of the Realm.” It was about Eorzean mythology and the actual story behind those myths.

It’s only out of left field if you haven’t been paying attention to the story over the last 10 years. In one of the expansions, I think it was Shadowbringers, Elidibus or Emet-Selch says that the Twelve are real but they don’t elaborate.

After the events of Endwalker, it made perfect sense that the Twelve would be constructs of Hydaelyn. Like I said in my previous post, people were already guessing that’s who they were before anyone even played the first raid.

That’s why I’m having a difficult time understanding how it could be seen as out of left field. People were literally saying they were created by Hydaelyn.

That was the story that had been established. Everything revolved around this all-powerful ancient civilization, and how one of their own rebelled against the others to save the star.