Good point. I guess it ultimately comes down tohow Fandaniel is characterized. Is he Fandaniel the Ancient or Fandaniel the sundered mortal? Is he the culmination of the unsundereds failure when it comes interacting with their sundered “comrades,” or is he a unique anomaly motivated by his own goals.
Like you point out, we don’t have many other Ascians we can point to who we’re neither working directly under the unsundered nor did not act wholly dedicated to the plan for the rejoining.
Still something has to be going on. Unless Fandaniel is secretly, in some convoluted scheme, still serving Zodiark, its clear he’s an even greater threat to Zodiark than Hydaelyn or Venat. And unless I’m missing something, all we have of his existence before he began working with Zenos is a small, broken, memory contained in his soul crystal. And even that didn’t seem particularly noteworthy, but perhaps that’s the point?
One other thing on the “dreamer”
Perhaps others had already noticed this and I’m just blind, but after Zenos gives permission to take more aether from a source “closer to home,” Fandaniel turns around and, staring up at the tower, yells
My initial interpretation was that he was directing this statement to Zenos, but what if he wasn’t? The camera, Fandaniels direction, all seems focused on the tower. The dialogue in other languages also points to this. If all that is correct, then that does narrow down who it could be, as I don’t think many characters would wish to “relieve those wretched creatures of the meaningless existence.” Certainly couldn’t imagine it being Varis. Would an unsundered fit? Emets voice is the narrator in the trailer right?The time has come to fulfill your hearts desire! My hearts desire! To relieve those wretched creatures of their meaningless existence!