Quote Originally Posted by Jennah View Post
Regarding Tempering:

If it's easy enough to un-Temper someone that the Scions, G'raha Tia and a Nu Mou can work it out in a few weeks ... couldn't the Ascians have worked it out over thousands of years? Makes me think that either:

1) It's going to turn out not to be possible to reverse tempering after all or
2) At least one Ascian, probably Elidibus, really is free of Zodiark's will or
3) This will be brought up the next time we're supposed to have sympathy for the Ascians, as a reason not to

Keep in mind:

As powerful and knowledgeable as the Ascians may be, they are neither omniscient nor omnipotent.

Zodiark is the original primal, and tempering was apparently not something they were concerned with or a bug that had not been worked out. After being tempered themselves, the Ascians wouldn't be concerned with dealing with it, and in regards to their goals it's advantageous for mortals to be tempered (as primals are good for sowing chaos and weakening Hydaelyn).

One need look no further than dimensional travel to see their shortcomings; in over 12,000 years they did not figure out how to jump across the Rift to different shards while still in possession of a physical body, while Crystal Exarch G'raha and the post-8th Umbral Calamity Ironworks were able to do that in "just" a couple centuries.