7.2 MSQ opinions (spoiler obviously)

[OMGJesuis66]

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I agree with the reluctance bit, but that would have been still a "Me X World" scenario. As for the rest, it's individual interpretations of what was left vague in the narrative. I still have an incredible hard time to relate to them given measures and conducts that took them to *seven times* cause global catastrophes over thousands and thousands of years. They had time for a lot of different options and growth.

But, it is what it is, I would be just repeating myself at this point and forward.

[Lunaxia]

I agree with the reluctance bit, but that would have been still a "Me X World" scenario. As for the rest, it's individual interpretations of what was left vague in the narrative. I still have an incredible hard time to relate to them given measures and conducts that took them to *seven times* cause global catastrophes over thousands and thousands of years. They had time for a lot of different options and growth.

But, it is what it is, I would be just repeating myself at this point and forward.

I wonder? Speculation is all we really have given they've now closed that chapter, but it's worth remembering that goes both ways. What you mention as lacking in their society could conceivably exist; pockets of disagreement, rebellion, frustration, all of which you're looking for. Perhaps Amaurot was perceived less positively by its neighbours for its attitude than one might think, and was something of an outlier for the standards it chose to live by. We may never know. The rest, however, does come through in the story when you actually keep an eye out for it.

And it's fair to criticise them and question them for why they did in fact never pause to think, or become able to view the Sundered through a different lens. What I call a sense of love and duty does also mean damnation for the choices made for that cause, albeit I do think your expectations are a little high. And maybe there were shards of the other Ascians who thought it was a lost cause and called time - after all, we have a fragment of Loghrif who chose to walk away from it, despite her connection to her partner from back then. My point isn't that you should sympathise, but goes back to your original post saying the story itself fails to set up an adequate and plausible explanation for the path they chose to take, which I firmly believe it absolutely does.