The Omega

[Februs]

Objection!

Sustained lol.

You are correct.It is highly unlikely that the Allgan empire would have endured had Amon and Xande not made an even bigger mess of things given that it was already starting to decline ... however you're also kind of proving the rest of my point lol.

Like I said, we were openly told that, at it's peak, the Allagan civilization enjoyed peace and prosperity across its entire empire (which, by definition, would include its subjugated states as well). That prosperity was brought on by a limitless energy supplied by the Crystal Tower and Dalamud. This means that the prosperity the Allagans enjoyed, no matter how brief, was in part supplied by the technology they received (and likely modified) from the Ascians (oops).

We also cannot say that it was a short time of prosperity. Doga specified that it lasted for "generations." Note the use of a plural. That means a minimum of two generations, at least, in a civilization in which the average lifespan was likely quite long (due to their extreme advances in science and magic. Regardless, even if it was a short time, which is unlikely, I doubt that the Ascians were happy about it. Given that they want to cause as much destruction and drain as much aether out of the land as possible, any amount of prolonged peace is a bad thing for them, and they probably don't want to risk this happening a second time with any other civilization.

In fact, I can totally see them engineering the downfall of the Allgan Empire just to put a stop to it. Given their penchant for manipulation, it's possible that they started manipulating the people to spread decadence in the populace. It's also possible that they were the ones who put the idea of resurrecting Xande into Amon's head in the first place. Who knows, but I think it's a safe bet that they were pretty happy to see the Crystal Tower destroy the entire civilization.