Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I've realized that there's probably a worthwhile question to ask, because without it, the OP's opening questions don't really make enough sense to have a satisfying conclusive answer:

If you want demons and hell, why aren't voidsent and the Thirteenth enough?
I can only guess at OP's desires, but to me I would say that it would be insanely interesting if a supernatural order actually presented itself at this point within the FFXIV cosmology.

As it stands, they robbed the setting of nearly all of its mysteries, and the afterlife is confirmed to be part of a planetary process that can be physically observed. You lose a lot of wonder when death on Etheirys basically entails just chilling in a semi-hostile blue planet center until you get reborn. The showing and doing of going into the Aitiascope down into the Aetherial Sea in our physical bodies on top of that is the sort of genie they can't put back in the bottle.

It robbed from lore that came before it with regards to how life and death work in the setting and resulted in mild undercuts to a lot of, "And they're dead and gone forever." / their spirit came back to aid us sort of things.

But imagine for instance that an actual God entity presented itself to the setting as being above and beyond the weird cycle of Etheirys. I have no idea about how they'd write it, nor what such an entity would consider good, nor do I know what such an entity's "fallen angels" would be like.

But if it did come about, it'd have us scratching our heads once more and asking a million questions.

And for what it's worth, I've been perfectly OK with XIV's versions of angels and demons and gods. I like the bacon necktie. It's fun to think about still, even if its most recent happenings are not to taste.

TL;DR - The desire for divinities to feel mysterious and unknowable and their dark counterparts to have a similar feeling.