I didn't really expect the WoL/D to be a sundered Hythlodaeus, so that comes as no surprise to me. I am glad we got clarification that the Ancients are not all Ascians, however. I did kind of get that impression before, as I expect the title of "Ascians" was coined by the three unsundered members of the Convocation to give a name to those tempered by Zodiark (most likely after the sundering), so that information seems to lend credence to that idea. Also, I agree it makes sense that the recreated simulacrums of the Ancients appear the way they do, given how much time has passed for Emet-Selch since the Terminus and the subsequent sundering. Knowing this, however, makes me wonder how incomplete the recreation of the city of Amaurot itself must be, and how much grander it must have actually been before its devastation.