One of Meteion's sisters appeared in the ruins to taunt the surviving Scions, claiming they could not move on as there was no shade for them to neutralize.
Meteion attempted to break the Scions as each sacrificed themselves so the others could progress, unable to comprehend their resistance. To Meteion's surprise, Thancred's soul lingered on, and his final desire for his friends' survival altered Ultima Thule, saving the Scions' lives and allowing them to traverse the area in a limited capacity. As the Scions began to fall unconscious, Thancred Waters, the last Scion standing, attempted to strike Meteion down, but she used her control over dynamis to completely unmake him. Upon this, everyone on the ship began to suffocate since her abode was born from the despair of every dead civilization the Meteia had found, its very nature prevented life from existing within it. Despite Meteion feeling the passion in her hearts, she declared it extinguished as the Ragnarok crossed into Ultima Thule. The Scions acknowledged that life could be cruel, but refused to share in Meteion's despair and declared their intent to stand against her. One of the Meteia confronted the Scions in the Ragnarok, wondering why they had come to stop her when they could have simply waited on Etheirys for her song of oblivion to claim their lives. After the Warrior of Light's journey to Elpis, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn learned of her existence and used the starship Ragnarok to reach her domain on Ultima Thule, a region of space where dynamis was so concentrated and potent that emotion dictated reality. Upon Zodiark's destruction, Meteion's song of oblivion was once again capable of reaching Etheirys, and the Final Days resumed. The sooner you accept this, the easier it will be. Your world, like every other, is but a blemish upon its perfect fabric. A truth you would recognize if you looked up at the night sky. You think there is, convince yourselves, but it's all a cruel accident. Stolen away by events beyond your control. Happiness, should you find it, is inevitably lost. Why choose to prolong your suffering? Effort, ambition, love - they amount to naught. When Etheirys became affected, the ancients' governing body sacrificed half of the planet's populace to summon Zodiark to continually agitate the stagnating celestial aether, preventing the Meteia's dynamis from penetrating and affecting the living on the planet's surface, even when Etheirys itself came to be splintered into the Source and its thirteen reflections in the battle between Zodiark and Hydaelyn. The Meteia flew to the edge of the universe to nest, and collected the despair they had found and experienced and used it to stir the dynamis of the universe into motion with their song of oblivion, powerful enough to slowly still the layer of celestial aether that shrouded Etheirys, starting the Final Days. Hermes, similarly torn by the revelation, covered Meteion's escape so she could reconvene with her sisters at the edge of the universe, though Venat managed to cast a tracking spell on her before she escaped the planet's atmosphere. Her individual mind was suppressed as the shared consciousness concluded that existence was suffering and resolved to end all the life in the universe as a mercy. The Meteion by Hermes's side was horrified when she linked to her sisters to compile their findings. The collective suffering and despair of a universe of souls ended up infecting the empathic collective consciousness. The Meteia only found dead worlds or worlds on the verge of collapse, including some they unknowingly destroyed when their empathic abilities affected the denizens of those worlds. She and her identical sisters (collectively referred to as the Meteia) possessed a shared consciousness, with one Meteion remaining by Hermes's side as a terminal and his companion while her sisters were sent out into the universe, riding waves of dynamis to discover other life-bearing stars to ask their denizens the reason for living they had found for themselves, the ultimate purpose for which Hermes had created the Meteia. Meteion was created as an entelechy from the emotion-derived energy known as dynamis rather than of aether, the energy that most life forms are composed of. Meteion was created by Hermes, an ancient residing in Elpis on the planet Etheirys.