Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
And now we're meandering back towards the debate on exactly how much of human folly and disaster can be traced to an external source, and whether or not it was merely the weakness of some humans failing to resist the temptations of some decidedly inhuman evil that brought about the Calamities. That debate.
Well, when it comes to Ascians, that's pretty much the implied undertone of the entire game.

That said, I'm not really sure where you're going with this anymore. Hypothetical conjecture aside, my original point was that actually exactly what you're saying. I don't think the Ascians have had nearly as much involvement with the Allagans or Garleans (especially not the Garleans) as most people give them credit for. I'm just drawing a inference for why they haven't been as involved, especially in recent years.

We know from Tiamat that the Ascians did, in fact, give technology to entrap Bahamut to the Allagans, and that the immediate result before the earthquake was a time of peace that lasted generations. That sounds like a pretty big backfire to that plan, to me; so, it would make sense that they don't want to risk repeating the same mistake with anyone else. Hence, no more technological handouts. How much or how little involvement they've had with manipulating events behind the scenes is beside the point. Direct influence via technology such as Omega or Dalamud has been lacking.