Quote Originally Posted by Kyrj View Post
I didn't care for the "Final Days" bit. Not one thing about it felt "Final Days"ish, no.
This reads like someone who had skipped dialogues and cutscenes.

1. The severity of the Final Days was shown in Thavnair plenty good even with its own dungeon. The severity of the situation on a small island country was terrible enough to make a conclusion of how terrible it would be on a global scale. You dont need half the planet on fire and demons to just then realize "oh shit, this is bad, we need to stop it". And..OH WAIT, we were actually showed already many times how bad the Final Days are.....in Shadowbringers, the previous expansion you know. And especially in its last dungeon - Amaurot. So we (the WoL and the Scions) have already seen and experienced how bad the Final Days can be by that point.

2. No real point? The NPC that has probably the most key point in the whole FF14 universe and its story. The NPC that is a being that can sense, convey and control the most abundant power in the universe that even the ancients couldn't is had "no real point"? It is the NPC that has affect all stories and characters in the game and their existences.

3. About the towers: Maybe because destroying 1 pillar of an almost destroyed seal is easier than destroying a full seal with full pillars directly? The point of the towers was to get aether to destroy the seal which they almost did. Zenos just did the final push. You really think that Zenos could have outputed as much damage (aether) as that gathered from like at least half the planet?

4. Zenos/Fandaniel not having a point: Well yeah, that is the whole point of their story and it explained it to use very well through their characters.
Zenos never cared about Fandaniel's plans and whether or not they work, he didnt care about the Final Days, he didnt care about Zodiark or Hydaelyn or the ancients. He just wanted a challenging fight to the death with a strong opponent, which was us, the WoL.
Fandaniel didn't care ever that much about winning (one distinction with Zenos here), or living. He actually wanted to die and said so himself many times. He himself said in few cutscenes that he is his worst enemy because of the things he lets happen to his plans. Examples are: the cutscene where he is outside the workshop of the alchemists in Thavnair that were creating the anti-tempering talismans and the cutscene where he helps you to get to Zenos while you are in the Garlean soldier body.

Fandaniel wanted to die and destroy everything before dying, as he saw deaths as the only solution to everything and that nothing else mattered.

From the Elpis arc we understand that Fandaniel (Amon) was just the inheritor/part of the soul of Hermes, which explains the whole part of Amon and his deathwish. Amon was just an extreme part of Hermes' views and thoughts...it was like that part of Hermes' soul (since it was sundered) that was all about nihilism and the death of humans.