Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Bizarre as a storytelling choice. The writers have chosen to make Zodiark inert and a non-entity without his heart. After so much lead-up and talk about him they have chosen to write him as basically nothing of interest.
I find myself wondering how much sense it even makes given that similar entities have come to exist that were treated as still being 'living beings' even if they were little more than animated husks themselves. I speak of the likes of Omega, Alpha, Eden and Meteion. Certainly the circumstances differ in each case but...even absent of Elidibus, Zodiark had a number of Ancient souls dwelling within him and given that they spoke to the Warrior of Light - albeit briefly - so I'm disinclined to write off Zodiark as truly 'mindless'.

If nothing else, I imagine it's disappointing to fans of both Zodiark and Hydaelyn to have so much of the story reduced to 'look at this cool scene, but don't think too deeply about the implications of it'.

As a Garlean fan, I couldn't help but note that pretty much everything I looked to in the lore book for inspiration in role-play and the like ended up showing up in-game with minimal alterations. However so many aspects of the story to do with Zodiark and Hydaelyn appears to have repeatedly been altered over the years.