Quote Originally Posted by Terin View Post
I still maintain that the story's pacing was ultimately just too fast for its own good (it felt like two expansions' worth of ideas crammed into one)
All films and expansions are like that really because, well, they are cramming it all into one release.

1. Zodiark proper
Won't happen, because Zodiark was sundered (split into shards) and because we killed the source, the other fragments were killed as well according to Yoshi-P.

I assume that doesn't happen to other people who are killed in the source because they have all returned to the aetherial sea since being sundered and become more separated from their counterparts on other shards, whereas Zodiark had never returned at any point. But I don't know.

Either way, if a fragment of Zodiark does in fact exist on other shards then we are about to find out in 6.4 when we visit the Moon in the 13th.

Regardless, I would just like an opportunity to "meet" Zodiark. I feel like there was SO MUCH BUILD-UP for him, it felt like a huge letdown when we only got to see him as a soulless husk inhabited by Fandaniel.
The point the story was trying to make is that Zodiark was just another aether-craving primal, like all the rest. Something for us to kill. And that was a revelation to us after always believing that Zodiark was a true god.

The story was trying to show us that the ancients believed Zodiark was a true god that would deliver them the perfect world they once had, but that from an objective observer's point of view, such as your own, the ancients were behaving like beast tribes who sacrifice themselves to give aether to a primal and that this is a never-ending cycle with no benefit.

Think about it. What is the difference between those ancients sacrificing themselves in front of Venat, and beast tribes making an offering of some of themselves or aether crystals, in exchange for the world to be made as they want?

Nothing. And that's the point.

Also, I was disappointed to see the heart of the Garlean Empire was essentially a massive ghost-town.
We do visit ruins an awful lot. It's nice to see an actually thriving civilization. But I am sure this is content for the future. We've had Mor Dhona, Idyllshire, Doman Restoration and Ishgard Restoration. Get ready for Garlemald Restoration someday!