What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Rulakir]

Given how discussions have been going in other threads, I think it illustrates why this one is so appreciated.

As for dynamis, I hope they drop it. Meteion is the only reason we needed it and she's gone. There doesn't appear to be any other benefit to it aside from 'pushing limits', which is frankly only necessary due to being sundered. 'Authentic' mankind would be objectively more powerful. I'm still hoping the next 10 year arc is the WoL becoming progressively more whole (I need to have an unsundered Azem reunite with Emet & Hyth at the end of all this). I also think it's fully in line with Venat's mentality for everything to rejoin once Meteion had been defeated and mankind forced into her ideology. We'll see if Oda sticks to what he said about the sundering being "unstable", which was while Hydaelyn was alive. The situation should start to fall apart now unless, of course, this is her once again not experiencing any of the drawbacks that others do. Zodiark's magic disappearing with his demise but Hydaelyn's not would sadly be consistent with EW's writing.

[Teraq]

I'm still hoping the next 10 year arc is the WoL becoming progressively more whole (I need to have an unsundered Azem reunite with Emet & Hyth at the end of all this).

(inhales a long huff of copium)

We'll see if Oda sticks to what he said about the sundering being "unstable", which was while Hydaelyn was alive. The situation should start to fall apart now unless, of course, this is her once again not experiencing any of the drawbacks that others do. Zodiark's magic disappearing with his demise but Hydaelyn's not would sadly be consistent with EW's writing.

Of course. Only good magic stays. What is good magic, you ask? Well, Hydaelyn's, for starters, as the Mother Goddess of Light and Original Will of the Planet Made Manifest. Zodiark's, of course, evaporated as soon as he disappeared, as befits an ill-fated wish such as him. And, of course, Emet-Selch's Amaurot, which ... oh. His Amaurot stayed even though he literally died, but Elidibus's illusory star shower faded as soon as he was imprisoned in the Tower but he didn't actually die. Then we have Fandaniel's towers of the apocalypse, which... all disappeared as soon as we killed Anima? Crumbled? What about all the people inside? Was G'raha there to Break everyone's fall?? (I legitimately do not remember, that is how much gravity the first half of the plot was treated with) And that is just Aether-based magic, consider Dyn– Why am I asking this??? HOBBES HELP ME WE NEED TO REWRITE THOSE RULES

But yep. Dynamis has literally no reason to exist as it does, i.e. as some sort of "anti-Aether" which is inversely correlated to Aether density or whatever, other than giving us a very convenient excuse for wiping out the Ancients. The sole rule of Calvinball... Ancients can't win.

[Lauront]

Given how discussions have been going in other threads, I think it illustrates why this one is so appreciated.

As for dynamis, I hope they drop it. Meteion is the only reason we needed it and she's gone. There doesn't appear to be any other benefit to it aside from 'pushing limits', which is frankly only necessary due to being sundered. 'Authentic' mankind would be objectively more powerful. I'm still hoping the next 10 year arc is the WoL becoming progressively more whole (I need to have an unsundered Azem reunite with Emet & Hyth at the end of all this). I also think it's fully in line with Venat's mentality for everything to rejoin once Meteion had been defeated and mankind forced into her ideology. We'll see if Oda sticks to what he said about the sundering being "unstable", which was while Hydaelyn was alive. The situation should start to fall apart now unless, of course, this is her once again not experiencing any of the drawbacks that others do. Zodiark's magic disappearing with his demise but Hydaelyn's not would sadly be consistent with EW's writing.

Yep and this is exactly why I am not overly enthusiastic about it, particularly if it gets re-casted as "and here's why we should be glad those ill-fated ancients are gone..." There are ways to avoid it, like I mentioned, but it requires careful writing and I am not optimistic on that front.