After Patches 5.3 and 5.4, I've noticed a greater degree of diversity in assumptions, opinions, and theories regarding this topic than I expected.
In the MSQ, Emet-Selch makes no bones about it that the act of summoning Zodiark brought the Convocation "into symbiosis with His energy" and thus tempered them. His psyche was so powerful that even the Ancients could not resist this phenomenon through which primals temper the beast tribes today. For that reason, they are attuned to and exist for the primordial energy of activation and intensification (aka Darkness) and increasing its share in the cosmos, "For Zodiark."
In Eden, Gaia suggests that memory is a key component - that if the mortals Mitron and Loghrif had become never regained their memories, their "duty to Zodiark" could not have compelled them. Moreover, we see Gaia, remembering Ancient Gaia, taking on the energy of Darkness and showing the Lohgrif glyph herself.
So what of Fandaniel?
He has no first-hand memories of the world that was lost and is filled with resentment at being treated like "just another disposable underling." He says Elidibus had to constantly keep him in line and they never liked each other. My mind goes right to Nabriales. I can't help but start with the assumption that he's still tempered and that he simply thinks he knows better than the Originals the best way to make Zodiark happy.
But he also claims to act with "sovereignty."
So what do you all think? Are the leftover sundered Ascians tempered? To what degree can they diverge from the Originals' plan? From what Zodiark wants?
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In the MSQ, Emet-Selch makes no bones about it that the act of summoning Zodiark brought the Convocation "into symbiosis with His energy" and thus tempered them. His psyche was so powerful that even the Ancients could not resist this phenomenon through which primals temper the beast tribes today. For that reason, they are attuned to and exist for the primordial energy of activation and intensification (aka Darkness) and increasing its share in the cosmos, "For Zodiark."
In Eden, Gaia suggests that memory is a key component - that if the mortals Mitron and Loghrif had become never regained their memories, their "duty to Zodiark" could not have compelled them. Moreover, we see Gaia, remembering Ancient Gaia, taking on the energy of Darkness and showing the Lohgrif glyph herself.
So what of Fandaniel?
He has no first-hand memories of the world that was lost and is filled with resentment at being treated like "just another disposable underling." He says Elidibus had to constantly keep him in line and they never liked each other. My mind goes right to Nabriales. I can't help but start with the assumption that he's still tempered and that he simply thinks he knows better than the Originals the best way to make Zodiark happy.
But he also claims to act with "sovereignty."
So what do you all think? Are the leftover sundered Ascians tempered? To what degree can they diverge from the Originals' plan? From what Zodiark wants?
Continue reading...