Quote Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC View Post
Hydaelyn didn't create them to "take people's desire to worship gods seriously" at all, I don't know where you got that.
Huh, didn't the game state that? Maybe localization differences again, gonna have to find a quote.

Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I don't think the Twelve were ever intended, from the in-universe perspective, to be gods, and acting like they were is going to lead you down a false path. Our actual window into the intention of Hydaelyn is that they more more supposed to be stewards than gods: they were made to make sure the world didn't melt back in a time where it was very much in need of help. It's just that being that sort of visible, assumed-positive influence got them worshipped as gods, and over time that had an effect.
Well that would change everything, so they didn't create the epitaph as a precaution first but as a reaction to happening to be worshipped?

Or maybe Hydaelyn knew people would worship them and took that seriously and I misremember it as her intending for them to be worshipped.

But what does being a steward to the star mean? Providing aetheric stability? And they had to be gods to be able to work together and consciously react to problems unlike a machine? Did they stop being useful after like the first Astral era?