What is The Eye doing?

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But then what happened to Hraesvelgr's eye? The one he gives the WoL in the Final Steps...?

Then, we toss both of Nidhogg's eyes into a chasm... so what happens to the power of the Azure Dragoon? Do the eyes still give someone their power? Shouldn't the WoL be a DRG no longer...? Gaaahh!

We gave Hraesvelgr his eye back, as it can be clearly seen when we're flying alongside him in the ending cutscene.

As for Nidhogg's eyes, I don't think the WoL or Estinien can draw on their power any more, but I'm pretty sure the WoL never did that in the first place (except for one instance), and Estinien clearly no longer wants to anymore.

I still say it was pretty stupid to just throw them into the abyss... did they seriously think it's just a bottomless pit that nobody could ever possibly dig them out of? Frankly, I was a little annoyed by that plot hook, because I'm more than a little done with the whole Dragonsong War, which, story-wise, felt like we were constantly taking two steps forward and then two steps back, and then fighting a ton of "final final, no, THIS one is the FINAL ONE, WE SWEAR" battles. We've already fought Nidhogg twice, I don't think Round 3 (or Round 4 if you want to count EX) is going to be very exciting now.

Finally, the Eye may make the Azure Dragoon, but it doesn't make someone a DRG, otherwise there would only be one DRG ever, at a time. It's the soul crystal that makes the DRG, and that is a different thing from the Eye, and, as long as we unlocked the job quest and have the soul crystal, we're a DRG. Note that, if we never unlocked the DRG quests, then the 3.0 storyline plays out the same, with the WoL not being an Azure Dragoon. It... kind of raises the question of how we managed to use the Eye's aether to kill Iggy, if we're not the Azure Dragoon, but I'll chalk that one up to the WoL being a Jedi.