Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
I'm ready to believe that the story had little or nothing to do with the eventual Sound-driven cataclysm. It may simply have been a glimpse into the mindset of Emet and the other Ancients, highlighting their unmalicious callousness when it came to lesser beings (a callousness which would later be inflated to the point where they were willing to do what they did to usher in the Rejoinings). For now, though, I believe that the Phoenix episode was a hint at the origins of the Sound and the End of Days, and how even the greatest among the minds of the Ancients failed to recognize the threat before it was too late.
You are correct that the story was to point out the callousness thought of lesser beings, as the parallel is continued by drawing a comparison between pre- and post- sundered Emet showing his inner disgust for his progeny in Varis who was the perfect grandson in all regards other than his soul is fractured.

The phoenix on the other hand is to call back Louisoix, so to subtlety link the Ancients and Sharlayans again. It's clear that when Louisoix summoned the 12 and was transformed into Phoenix, he was using the same creation magic the Ascians are giving beast tribes to summon primals, and the Ancients used flagrantly. So the question posed is why did Louisoix know about this magic? Especially, if he didn't get it from an Ascian.