Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
That's because they were tempered.
There's internal logic but I just mean they made it seem like more of a big deal. Name dropped at the end of 2.0, stewing in the background for several years after, it's something Ascians were working on rejoining for millennia, countless major events throughout the history of the world were just set up to make a little bit of progress on the Zodiark thing, all the calamities, the wars, the confluence of chaos designed to bring us closer to Zodiark. Entire nations built and were destroyed all towards the long goal of bringing Zodiark back. And then he was just another ordinary boss in Endwalker and pushed aside.