Questiona about Mother Hydaelyn

[Mishini_Dracoto]

I am goin to rewind and step back from FFXIV as I post my response. Over the span of the enire Final Fantasy series there is an overarching story/theme linking crystals / shards / magicite / etc as the source of energy & power. Instead of worrying about deforestation or fracking, in the Final Fantasy Series, the accompanying theme is the over use of crystals / shards, overdrawing the power from the earth/planet (by extraction, similar to mining/logging). When OP asks about 'Mother Hydaelyn' I take this 100% akin to saying 'mother earth.' I believe all living things in Eorzea have some Aetheric Energies (my vision fo their aetheric goggles is akin to thermal goggles, everythin radiates SOME aetheric energy) This Aetheric Energy is literally the power of the crystals. If you were to suck all the power of the world and re-condense it back into one meta-crystal of power, the result would be Hydaelyn. Which is also why we vision her floating in space (in order to her to exist at some sort of full capacity, nothing else on the planet would exist, the entirety of the planet is actually Hydaelyn)

The people who pointed a Ramuh plot I would bellieve are correct, at least in the way that Hydaelyn and Zodiark are light and dark, and almost exist as parrallel universes. wherin the 'fathercrystal' is Zodiark, and the Ascians are the Wariors of Darkness. I will agree that this does not necessarily make them evil, but from a saving Eorzea sandpoint, their goals would be evil by our standpoint, even though in the greater scheme of things, they are actually presented in a very druidic manner / seeking to restore balance.

I don' think I have the capacity to continue answering our question at the moment, my brain keeps wandering off o a philosophical tangent about how we are ACTUALLY the warriors of darkness, or at least the warriors of evil, for our planet is filled with and ruled by evil. the citizens of Eorzea are a very selfish lot, save room for exceptions with the Scions and a few others. The fabled Warriors of light as heroes from the perspective of selfish evil people. We are saving the bad guys! Our Rebellion against he Ascians is childish.

But then, look at where he story started. Where did the Warriors of Ligh reall come from? we all arrived at some city sate via a chocobo-drawn carraige. Where were we before that? Even if you say you've been to the Cit State before, you're reated as a newcomer. a Random adventurer, appeared . . . out of the Aether?!

maybe, MAYBE, we are also Primals?! !? Our existence borne from the dreams of people wishin for a savior. because there was enough people around the whole planet, crystals from the entire planet were used to create the primal / warrior of light, and thus they were not needed to be heaped in one big fat pile.

This makes little sense however to the current plot. These anomolies of Primals can't really include Warriors of light and dark / scions or Ascians. Instead I contend that we are servents/minions of our respective crystal. Hydaelynn and Zodiark are the same and yet opposites. Where Hydaelynn is a giver of life, and a planet, Zodiark is a void, which bings only death


References for overarching theme, I'll draw upon my mos recently replayed game and poin to FFVII, Midgard / Lifa Stream. (literally, liquid life-giving, source of all power, that lows nderneath the surface of he planet giving power to all things)
FFIX, The Lifa Tree, somebody else mentioned i in here.