Quote Originally Posted by Tharne View Post
Their magick is creation not alteration that's why that dude can't just change the clothes he just failed to create the way he saw it. The living creatures were also affected and being distorted. Their magic can't do that, ergo it was something else.

You all just seemed to want to pin the blame on them for I don't know what reason. ("The Ascians are the bad guys, of course the downfall of their civilization was of their own doing.")

The only wrong people I see in this story are the one that decided to summon Hydaelyn.
(And no, I don't think we are one of them. We are the 14th, but the same way we didn't want to summon Zodiark, we probably didn't want to summon Hydaelyn.)
But the same sidequest also had the clerk transmute a living creature into a crystal which we were then supposed to use creation magic on to create a robe. Between that, all the other information in the city, and the fact that the last area of the dungeon is named something to the effect of "but in the end, it was our sins that doomed us", yes I'm willing to say that the Ancients(not just those that would survive the Sundering and become Ascians) caused it.