Is Zodiark evil?

[Anonymoose]

I feel like the answer to this is going to be complex in the end, but that regardless of the complexity, he's sure going to seem evil.

Hydaelyn and Zodiark occupy a place in the lore that echoes the classic games, and thus it appears pretty clean cut: the Mothercrystal is Light and "good" and Her counterpart is Dark and "bad". But in the big picture, this isn't a classic game, and thus it will probably be more complicated than that. For example, I'm almost positive that - in the end - "good" and "evil" are going to be dependent on, more than anything, one's point of view.

Consider Elidibus, the closest thing we have to a measure of Zodiark's intentions. Is it so "evil" to see our cosmos as an aberration of the natural order in need of redressing? That, regardless of what has come after, it is a mockery of what was and ought still to be? But from our perspective, he's responsible for incalculable suffering and loss to the world we know and love. He and his are directly responsible for the utter annihilation of eight and a half worlds not unlike our own, and the deaths of everyone there upon, and he plans the same for us. ("These lands, these people, this world─all shall soon change.")

Even if Zodiark is "evil" (from our perspective) it might even be incidental; what if his attributes are the attributes of Darkness and He can no more deny his nature than the scorpion of The Scorpion and the Frog?