Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
I would never choose genocide. If my people had been destroyed, I would have mourned their loss, erected a memorial and moved on.
But if the souls of your people were shattered and you were able to reconstruct them, is it really genocide? Hydaelyn was more the perpetrator of genocide than the ascians in this situation. And wouldn't undoing that genocide be the actual good thing to do? Isn't that what we should be rooting for?

I look at the souls of the ascians as vases that zodiarc was in charge of keeping safe after an earthquake nearly knocked them over. Hydaelyn, however, pushed him out of the way and smashed all the vases with a hammer, missing only a few, then locked zodiarc outside. She then rearranged the shards to serve her own purpose,, but how is breaking back into the room, pushing her out of the way and reconstructing those pieces back into a whole vase again, be akin to or even worse than, their initial destruction?

The ascians do not want to destroy the world, they simply want to put the pieces of the world back together after a complete psychopath barged in an smashed it.