Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 1)

Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Except, it’s not just that they don’t like the present. The sundering made the world unstable. Not only that but in regards to your genocide comment.It wouldn’t be a cycle of sacrifices. It would be one set of sacrifices to rejoin the worlds and bring back their loved ones. Also in regards to saving lives, that’s something the rejoinings would do in the long run anyways. Comparing how many lives are lost due to the sundering and mortal bodies dying off from illness and age, whereas the ancients lived far far longer and didn’t seem to be affected by illness, it would outweigh the loss eventually than just letting the cycle of the death caused from the sundering continue. It would be a better future.

I'll put it in the simplest terms possible

"How many people will your plan kill?"
Ascians: "All of them? That's kind of the point. I mean, we don't even really consider them people."
Ironworks: "I mean, ideally? None. In fact, given that the plan is saving everyone, the only true 'casualties' would be theoretically new souls born after the Calamity in case we change the Past and that eliminates the Future." (Which is a time paradox and I'm glad they went the "diverging timeline" route instead).

The short story you yourself mentioned deals about how Cid's plan started as: "Go back in time and prevent the Calamity", which made most people peace out. When the plan changed to "Go back in time and save the WoL" literally everyone rushed in to help. The Namazu, the Sky Pirates, the Four Lords, friggin' Hraesvelgr swoops in to help while being all tsundere about it. (Fun thing: Given that Seigetsu the Enlightened claims the TRUE timeline is the one where the WoL lives, it gives an extra incentive to the Ironworks' plan).

“The world was never in such a ruinous state in the visions sent to me by the Big One, no, no. Seigetsu the Enlightened said that the future I witnessed was part of another history, a different chain of events with no Eighth Umbral Calamity at all! Whatever that means...”

(Ok, not TRUE timeline, necessarily, but certainly A timeline where the WoL survives and the world is saved.)

Also, uhhh... what? with the "Sundering made the world unstable" thing... because... uh... the thing was "End Days made the world unstable, Convocation creates Zodiark by sacrificing half their people. Convocation decides they will sacrifice all the newborn life to Zodiark. Another Faction doesn't like that plan and creates Hydaelin. SOMETHING happens and then Hydaelin Sunders Zodiark and the world (we don't know if it was willingly or accidentally), Ascians plan to destroy each one of those worlds to bring back Zodiark AND THEN go back to original plan of killing everyone to bring back the Ancients."