Endwalker Main Scenario Commentary & Feedback

[EdwinLi]

Learn to accept life is not Perfect and Perfection does not exist.

This topic I feel is not delivered well to a point as a lot of players do not understand this part of the storyline or it went completely over their heads. This topic really need more time to develop and be explore but 6.0 story did not give it enough time.

It is a rather important focus of this storyline because the Ancient's motive for existing was to create a Perfect World that has no flaws since they have passed the point where they no longer need to concern themselves with providing everyone with daily necessities due to resolving this issue in their society.

As Cookingway said, Perfection does not exists. Every aspect of life is flawed in their own way. The Ancient's path in life will have eventually resulted in a Final Days of their own making due to one day they will realize Perfection is impossible and flaws will always exists in life. Thus some, or if not the majority, will eventually seek to create their own Final Days and destroy all life in on the planet due to falling into despair from realizing this truth that Perfection is impossible and life will always have flaws such as pain, despair, and etc.

In fact, Meteion's report (despite not getting the full one) did show the greatest flaw that lead to each world's destruction by creation of their own Final Days was their constant search for Perfection in one shape or form. Even worlds that were already destroyed before Meteion's sister arrived had the same goal to seek perfection in some way but that eventually lead to their own destruction by a Final Days of their own creation.

Meteion and her sisters may have began destroying worlds at some point due to realizing each world always ends up reaching this point but the main factor is that even without Meteion's influence, these civilizations in each world will eventually conclude they could not reach Perfection and thus fall into despair and cause their own Final Days. Even if they do not reach this point certain worlds caused their own Final Days by the actions of trying to reach Perfection itself eventually damaging their own world to a point the process of reaching Perfection became their Final Days.

As for the ones Meteion interacted with, they would have eventually reach the same conclusion as well as I mentioned earlier but Meteion just accelerated it to be soon.

One world where Meteion's sister made contact with even ended up causing their Final Days because the question she gave them caused a existential crisis since they realized they themselves are not perfect. Eventually someone in their own civilization or another seeking to explore worlds would have asked the same question and resulted in the same outcome. All it took was one being on their civilization to ask that question and they would have come to the same conclusion.

Another believed in away that their civilization was perfect because Meteion's sister choose to visit them first so they put themselves above other civilization that eventually started a war that became their Final Days. However, this civilization's mindset would have resulted in giving into the same belief by some other means since they seek to have a reason to consider themselves Perfect. Meteion may have given them that reason but something else can easily have done the same at a later time.

This is the major factor that caused Meteion's sister to conclude that "Death was the only option for all life" because no matter the civilization they reach a point that all necessities are covered then they seek perfection and eventually they cause their own Final Days through the process of trying to reach Perfection or reach what they believe is Perfection only to realize eventually they have not reach Perfection, Perfection does not exists, and give into despair to a point they want a Final Days.

I'll discuss this more in the post I created about the Consequences of other Stars but this is just my thought on this aspect of the 6.0 Storyline.