Quote Originally Posted by Shialan View Post
Who would we find this solution for? Have not played the same story? Sphene did not want to find any other solution. She was so far gone in her own world that she could not see any other way out.

It feels as if a lot of people never met people who do not want to listen to your help. Who only see their way.
At no point did any of the Scions or the WoL push forward a genuine solution. It was all a bunch of:
"Is there no other way...? I know you're a good person, but I love my people too...!"
Never was an actual solution proposed.
We see from Ottis being alive in his robot body for centuries that something clearly might be done. We have the knowledge of Sharlayan, of Allag, of Garlemald.
The Garleans had their mind upload thing when they were researching the Echo in Stormblood, the Allagans can do something similar and pseudo-revive people with stable clones that do not necessitate an aether drain (as seen with Xande), Sharlayans have God knows what else, the Exarch had his mind from the First transplanted to the Source using knowledge that only Allag and the First alchemists have.
We have gathered a titanic wealth of knowledge across civilizations, dimensions and time itself that Sphene cannot even imagine.
And some of our greatest scholars are present right there. And none of them bring any of these up- hell, Krle was involved in the Echo incident in Stormblood.
Much like the scions never bother bringing up they can cure the paralyzed boy's sickness, caused by an aetheric imbalance that sounds suspiciously like tempering.

Sphene was set on her ways and might have never been convinced, and maybe none of this technology would've worked, but we'll never know because we didn't freaking try.