Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
People refusing to admit they were confused by a dumb, overwrought cutscene and instead saying that there's actually a giant writing mistake where the writers of Shadowbringers somehow forgot their own story despite the fact the "Hydaelyn stomping Zodiark" cave art is basically the symbol of that whole expansion, so they awkwardly made a cover-up is still one of the silliest conspiracy theories I've heard about this game.
The problem is, that cutscene is confusing, even once you recognise that it has to be allegorical, and it's very hard to reconcile it as an allegory of a physical fight between the two beings. It does seem to be presenting an alternative narrative where Venat made a calculated decision to sunder the world herself, with Zodiark not present or involved, rather than it happening in the heat of battle.

Everything else up to that point seems to be a series of snapshots of "real" events, just merged into a single diorama instead of happening over time, so I'm left feeling that it doesn't line up with what we knew before.