Quote Originally Posted by Nestama View Post
... was there life before Zodiark was banished?
I don't want to say, "Definitely not." Elidibus clearly knows way more than we do, regardless of whether or not he's telling us the "good parts" or if he's just jerking us around to buy time and drum up the next big Calamity-causing conflict. (Perhaps re-embrace the "use the Warrior of Light" plan versus the soon-to-be-Allagan-equivalent Garlean Empire? Stay tuned!).

However, the Gerun Oracles SEEM TO imply that Hydaelyn created mortal life because she feared the already exiled Zodiark.

Quote Originally Posted by Gerun Oracles
In the beginning, before myth and legend,
before Light and Dark, there was but the sea.
In the beginning, before man and hist'ry,
Light and Dark were divided, the sea sundered in fourteen.
To the seas She cast Her children, for fear of the Moon.
For hate of the Star, to the seas He cast His doom.