Quote Originally Posted by geekgirl101 View Post
But here's the thing, G'raha went back in time to change events that wouldn't result in the future still being destroyed. If we had gone back into the past and warned everyone about Meteion then what could the Ancients have done about it? Her sisters were already out scouring the universe at the time we arrived. The Ancients had no means to reach out to stop her, and besides she was made from Dynamis which was an energy that very few Ancients knew anything about. As Ancients they were unable to interact with Dynamis, but as sundered Ancients we could. Zodiark only prevented Meteion from destroying the world by strengthening the aetheric currents, but over time he would've weakened and the aetheric currents would've started to weaken again, then what? Start sacrificing more Ancients to give him the energy required to restabilize the aetheric currents? All they'd be doing is delaying the inevitable at the cost of more souls being sacrificed over time until their race would've been shrunk to too few in number. Meteion herself needed to be stopped and only as unsundered were we capable of doing that, not only that but our own suffering and passion for life to strive forward was the answer Meteion was looking for to put an end to her song of oblivion.
Except he acknowledged there was the possibility in changing the past, it would erase their timeline. This was something both him and Ironworks acknowledged but went through with it anyways. Why is it any different for the ancients? As for defeating Meteion, im not sure how many times i tneeds to be said, Venat had knowledge on it all. All she had to do was tell the ancients the truth, and almost undoubtedly within 12k years they could come up with a solution. If you really think a race that has strived in high intelligence and debate wouldnt be able to eventually defeat Meteion after thousands of years....i dont know what to say. To me thats being willfully obtuse.

Not to mention we arent even completely sundered. We're what, 9/14? Thats only 5 shards away from being fully rejoined. Yet we have 0 problems manipulating dynamis. So either the writing is absolute shoddy on dynamis, dynamis just immediately stops being manipulated once you hit number 12 or 13 or whatever, or its just something that needs to be investigated and honed by the ancients, something they had thousands of years to do.In the end though, its pretty sad to see they wrote themselves in such a corner by making the ancients so powerful they had to come up with an asspull excuse to try and weaken them. Not sure how anyone can find that as good writing.