There are many people who love the ancients, so I ask: how would it have been possible to save them?
Let's exclude the Zordiak hypothesis, because they would only have become slaves of the primal, therefore extinction would be better.
It's been mentioned a lot so let's see how to create an alternate timeline with the living ancients. After all, they are the true inhabitants of Etheirys, because nature created them like this and not with a thin ether like the modern inhabitants (who knows if the inhabitants of other worlds have strong ether like the ancients, and if their density is the normal course of nature).
Suppose that before the departure of the WoL, Venat and the WoL spoke to the entire convocation, including azem (a meeting between past and present azem would be nice), telling the truth about Meteion and the last days to come. And let's assume that concocation believes everything.
Knowing this in advance they could have instructed the population not to give in to desperate thoughts that would have created monsters, in the meantime they would have created a grandiose spaceship to travel to Ultima Thule. Maybe if the population had been spotted and educated before the last days would never have arrived, but even if they had traveled to Ultima Thule how could they have defeated Meteion if they can't interact with Dynamis? (By the way I still don't understand how Hermes created Meteion if he can't interact with Dynamis).
So we come to a blind spot, they know the cause of the last days but they can't do anything because they can't manipulate Dynamis. Could they have created an army of familiars to send to Ultima Thule? I don't know, maybe the only way would have been to know about the danger in advance, and not give in to despair and prevent the last days from coming true.
But even if they survived, for how long? The shadows of the civilizations of Ultima Thule and the "Dead Ends" dungeon made us understand that perfection leads to apathy and therefore death.
What do you think?
Sorry for my bad English