I tend to like the story, but the cosmos of FF14 seems wildly contradictory and it seems to get worse with every expansion.
I was down with some of the messages and thought processes in Endwalker. The Ea being depressed about entropy being a conclusion to existence is a dysmal prospect to immortality.
Only, the setting seems to have decided entropy isn't a thing at random. Like, I don't know, Valigarmanda creating eternal fires that don't even need fuel to burn. Endless energy? Or how about the Sin Eaters that the lorebook says don't need energy to function. Or how about the fact the story introduces those two voidsent who somehow spared their hunger by just feeding on each other?
One of the biggest reasons the primals were being hunted is they'd feed on all the aether on the star (Though the evidence of this actually being a worry is spotty) when you have infinite aether fires, how is that a threat?
There's just countless situations were energy is undiminishable is presented, and usually adds no story value to have it. Why have eternal fires for Valigarmanda? To show how powerful it is? A crater that bored through to underground lava vents would have show the same power without the need of perpetual energy.
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I was down with some of the messages and thought processes in Endwalker. The Ea being depressed about entropy being a conclusion to existence is a dysmal prospect to immortality.
Only, the setting seems to have decided entropy isn't a thing at random. Like, I don't know, Valigarmanda creating eternal fires that don't even need fuel to burn. Endless energy? Or how about the Sin Eaters that the lorebook says don't need energy to function. Or how about the fact the story introduces those two voidsent who somehow spared their hunger by just feeding on each other?
One of the biggest reasons the primals were being hunted is they'd feed on all the aether on the star (Though the evidence of this actually being a worry is spotty) when you have infinite aether fires, how is that a threat?
There's just countless situations were energy is undiminishable is presented, and usually adds no story value to have it. Why have eternal fires for Valigarmanda? To show how powerful it is? A crater that bored through to underground lava vents would have show the same power without the need of perpetual energy.
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