Quote Originally Posted by Big-Isaac View Post
Another thing I don't quite understand yet is... weren't the Ascians in the process of ruining their own plan?
The way the Exarch describes his future, what happened when black rose was used wasn't a calamity, but a world ender. It seems like life on the Source was on its last legs with no hope in sight. This means that, had the Exarch not changed the future, life on the Source would have ended, which would have torpedoed the Ascians' plan. With no people around, there would have been no way to trigger the rest of the needed calamities. And even had they somehow managed to cause the rejoining anyways, there would have been no more life left on the Source to feed to Zodiark.
Eh. There would have been a point where the Black Rose stopped affecting people (clearly some were immune anyways) and few enough people fighting that things would have balanced out eventually. I'm wondering what sort of world would have arisen from that? An almost religiously Pacifistic singular nation?