It's somewhat easier, here, to explain further. To speak of what they had done, surrounded by the vision of the place they had done it all for, by the reminders of the home he had loved. Still loves, now-- always will.
"No. 'Twas that very intent which split us, and led to the summoning of the opposing god who smote Him and sundered everything. Zodiark put an end to the apocalypse, and restored life to a nearly destroyed world. We meant to nurture it all until there existed an excess, with which we then would make a third sacrifice. Trade the aether of some of the life blossoming in the world for the souls and lives of our brethren, without disturbing the natural order.
...But, as you know, instead came division, and the Sundering. Those souls still slumber within Zodiark now, after the passing of millenia. Unbroken, but in stasis."
They are not truly dead. Not fully. The cycle cannot be completed.
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"No. 'Twas that very intent which split us, and led to the summoning of the opposing god who smote Him and sundered everything. Zodiark put an end to the apocalypse, and restored life to a nearly destroyed world. We meant to nurture it all until there existed an excess, with which we then would make a third sacrifice. Trade the aether of some of the life blossoming in the world for the souls and lives of our brethren, without disturbing the natural order.
...But, as you know, instead came division, and the Sundering. Those souls still slumber within Zodiark now, after the passing of millenia. Unbroken, but in stasis."
They are not truly dead. Not fully. The cycle cannot be completed.