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

[DevonEllwood]

I love the stories of two ambitious women we got for this expansion. One was completely engrossed into understanding life down to it's building blocks and wanted to share that passion and ambition with a man who was completely enthralled with her. Nothing would get in her way as she lies through omission and uses mankind to further her agenda. The other one was Athena.

The second raid and the short story coming out in the same patch is complete irony. I could not help but think we got the same story of an individual twice. All we needed was there to be a man blindly obsessed with Venat aaaand there it is in the short story. I like that she stated that she wouldn't reveal everything so as to not give them preconceived ideas of the future or something. Because anyone with a brain would have backed down from her plan if they knew she was going to destroy their entire civilization and not just take on Zodiark.

Also if I'm going to be picky, there are rules in writing, just like there's rules in art. There's dos and don'ts into making something good. A seminar I went to a long time ago, pointed out that people can only process so many new pieces of information. Going over two and your pushing it. Thavnair gives us, alchemists can make realistic bodies, the ruler of the area is actually a dragon, the dragon is the boy, his eye is in the boy, he's been ripping his skin off to make charms, ALL in one cutcsene. This is a don't. This happens again with the second part of the raid, except slightly more spaced out. Like they're rushing to get all this information out because I'm pretty sure it was supposed to last all 3 raids, but I guess things changed? I don't know. I hope we get more of Athena, because all we need is another very shaky reason for her to be doing what she was doing, make it seem like there's no other choice, have her love humanity or something and bam, good person.

Also I love that Blade has joined the group now. We already have a (teenager?) who is actually a 10,000 year old dragon, we are just one obnoxiously loud, powerful idiot short of a full anime team.

You really think the handful of Eorzeans permitted onto the Moon (remember the vast majority of the Source's inhabitants plus all the denizens of every Shard were gonna get abandoned) are at all likely to be non-susceptible to the Despair she brings, especially since in 6.1 we discovered it was completely random?!

Nah, I don't think so.

We already know the sharlayans said their people were first to get on the moon, and then they would go down the list. I highly doubt they would have let garleans on the moon at all. I doubt there was room for the dragons and all the beast tribes. The idea was completely stupid.