Originally Posted by
Avé
Originally Posted by
Toksyuryel
Furthermore I am not entirely convinced that at the time of his death, he actually wanted to die. The game only provides that "However, the arrival of death implacable / brought an end to the God of Twilight." which implies that he didn't go emo and want to die. The next stanza "Aglow with the essence of love eternal, / the Dawn Goddess sought to restore the / lost divinity."
The way I figured it was that Promathia had nothing to do and was fading away because of the empty-less Ziliart. So Altana gave Promathia a bigger part in life by putting some of his emptiness inside everyone, thus the Ziliart became mortal.
3) Emptiness isn't related to Promathia. That's a misconception. The "Emptiness" always existed around the Sentient Crystal, Promathia was just one of the first beings to be "destroyed" (read: absorbed) by it. The light of the Sentient Crystal used to keep it at bay, but when it split, it was no longer capable of doing so.
Don't they call the Emptiness 'The will of Promathia'? I always thought it meant that the emptiness was Promathia's way of making sure that we'll all die eventually.
I may be wrong, there is a lot of CoP that just went way over my head.
The problem with CoP was trying to seperate the nonsense that the NPCs in present day believe and the truth behind the matter. Many people refer to Emptiness as the will of Promathia or his curse. But they're not right; their opinions are predicated off of false knowledge.
Emptiness can best be described by the verses of the Ley of Immortals.
"It all began with a stone, or so the legend says.
In ages past, a sentient jewel, enormous and beautiful, banished the darkness.
Its many-colored light filled the world with life and brought forth mighty gods.
Bathed in that light, the world entered an age of bliss until, after a time, the gods fell into slumber.
That world was called Vana’diel.
Our world, Vana’diel."
Notice "banished the darkness." Later in CoP that verse is shown with "darkness" replaced by "emptiness." Thus Emptiness has always existed even when only the Sentient Crystal (which is the original of all things aside from Emptiness) existed.