Quote Originally Posted by PeaTearGriffin View Post
This is an interesting revelation to me because now we know that the ancients could wield dynamis and could've devised an alternate strategy as opposed to just sundering everybody. My understanding about the ancients and dynamis up till now was that the ancients couldn't interact with dynamis directly but could create beings (like meteion) that could.
They really couldnt manipulate or use it at will by themselves. Thats why it was a whole plot point that they couldnt sense the Final Days. However they could themselves be affected by it if it happens to be potently strong such as when the Final Days occurred, they were brought down by its intense negative effects of despair that their creation magicks went wild. Its always been an outside source. A notable example is Elidibus whom used the dynamis of the people of Norvrandt's (as well as the Warriors of other shards) to draw its power for him to become a Warrior of Light. Now that I think about it, this is kinda like how Kuja in FFIX had to use strong souls to use the basic form of Trance that the people of Gaia could wield.

But like how we brought up the point of an Ancient creation with Meteion whom could use dynamis, their lack of understanding if its effects and potential is what held them back. So no, they couldnt have been able to use it to properly combat the huge amounts of despair.