Quote Originally Posted by NanaWiloh View Post
lol Cant stay away so did some digging. As to why the ancients were sundered and their greatest flaw.

"One race had discarded all things that gave rise to sorrow, hoping to have only joy. They found joy lost its savor in the absence of sorrow, and lost their will to live." As stated by Meteon this is the fate ancients were doomed to meet as they could not cope with sorrow and suffering. They were weak had no clue how to handle such feelings.

Confirmed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh3sh5fTWGs&t=307s time index 4:11

The ancients were doomed cause of their desire for a blissful paradise and inability to cope with sorrow and suffering. Meteion just brought the problem to the surface and made it apparent to those who were not blinded by the bliss of their society. The whole point of the sundering was to force mankind to learn to accept sorrow and suffering as part of life and to learn from it or die in blissful ignorance. You got a society that's known only bliss and joy words alone stand very little chance of swaying them to accept the pain their feeling. This also paints Zodiark as double edge sword a Savior and a Devil, as they have little to no reason to learn how to move forward. With Zodiark present to prevent or undo anything that causes them sorrow and suffering.
Except this isn’t true, as has been stated again and again. They did know suffering. They knew of pain and sorrow. Do the Elpis side quests lol. Also lol, using her recollection of events as evidence when in the expansion prior we know such memories are easily malleable and changed. Just look at Cid with Bozja.