Quote Originally Posted by Ixon View Post
After that only provided a bandaid fix
I honestly would not consider Zodiark merely a bandaid fix. The Ancients were presented with the Final Days out of nowhere, did what they thought their only, desperate option was to save their world and...it did the job. Zodiark is split into 14 and his heart goes for a walk and he still keeps on pumping out his shield and there is no reason that we've been presented with to believe that he would ever stop doing so or that he would ever require additional sacrifices. He seems to work just fine after 12k years without any. As long as he's alive, Meteion and her song simply cannot affect Eitherys. The Ancients didn't know what was happening to them but despite this, they still find a working answer to their problem. They want to replace the aether of their sacrificed loved ones with the aether of this "new seeded life" and go back to being the stewards of their star. No one knows for sure what this new life is, but I've always assumed it meant the life that had been mentioned directly before this part of the story, i.e. the plants and animals that had begun to grow again, seems only logical. And the world would have continued to turn and grow again, safe from Meteion and her "song". For all the talk about how the Ancients couldn't have possibly found a way to counter Meteion, they effectively did exactly that.

Fighting Meteion at its source? I mean, if literally no one in the world but one person knows that Meteion even exists then why would they care about that? For all they knew, they had achieved their goal of stopping the end of their world and now they wanted their people back; Which is a completely human reaction. I don't know anyone who, having lost someone precious, wouldn't jump at a chance to have them back again if they were presented with a magical means to do so.