Quote Originally Posted by lolicon09 View Post
Also, he did lose pretty much all his people, not only the ones who gave their lives to their god, but also the ones shattered by mom crystal
The poor helpless god-like Ancients tried everything to stem the Chaos descending upon their best of all possible worlds, even going so far as to willingly sacrifice themselves in order to bring back Order to that Chaos by summoning ... Zodiark.

If that were the extent of things, I'd agree that the poor helpless god-like Ancients dodged a bullet and life goes on.

But then, a bunch of the poor helpless god-like Ancients who survived the Chaos got the great idea that they should sacrifice everything else that wasn't a poor helpless god-like Ancient to their 'god' in order to bring back those who sacrificed themselves in the first place. Who could have told them that this new sacrifice would be enough?

Could it have been ... Zodiark!?! Would Zodiark possibly mislead those poor helpless god-like Ancients? We know that the Ascians certainly have done so, and they created Zodiark in the first place.

Some portion of the poor helpless god-like Ancients decided this wasn't a good thing. They sacrificed themselves to call out another god, Hydaelyn, to prevent the sacrifice of every life that wasn't a poor helpless god-like Ancient.

There was a battle, and Zodiark was defeated and imprisoned. We don't know if it was Hydaelyn who shattered the world into shards, or Zodiark's last desperate attempt at winning the battle that did it. We do know that Hydaelyn has been picking up the pieces ever since.

And the poor helpless god-like Ancients, now calling themselves Ascians, who survived have been trying again and again to to undo their initial "noble sacrifice" for the sake of a suspect god named Zodiark.