Hrm. I'm getting the impression that the difference is either one of two things:
...goodness, this got off-topic. Back to the subject of Ixal...
It seems like there are a few different versions of what forced them to leave Tinolqa/the Twelveswood and why they were once at peace with the Gridanians but no longer. And all of them appear to be based in canon sources. How frustrating.
- Square telling but not showing. The writing continues to imply that the Greenwrath is a major threat to avoid, but events in the game do not ever show the exact consequences of invoking it. If this is the case, we're meant to take these words at face value, regardless of the lack of tangible demonstrations that the Greenwrath and elementals are the same as they were in 1.0.
- Square using the discrepancy to imply that the elementals were weakened by the Calamity. The reason behind the Greenwrath hardly showing up in tangible form in 2.0 could be entirely an intentional way of showing how much the Calamity changed the world, rather than a weak point in the writing of the game.
...goodness, this got off-topic. Back to the subject of Ixal...
It seems like there are a few different versions of what forced them to leave Tinolqa/the Twelveswood and why they were once at peace with the Gridanians but no longer. And all of them appear to be based in canon sources. How frustrating.
