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Ereshkigal? While it makes sense on paper, it's pretty contradictory to what Nergal was doing to plot world destruction. If he was truly capable of "Destroying a planet or two with his dark magic tomes," pretty sure he would have just done so as opposed to relying on dragons from an alternate dimension. Nergal was completely driven insane where destruction was all he really desired left. And was defeated by weakened versions of the Divine Weapons. And the three dragons that came from the Dragons Gate (Same ones stated would take a whole month to destroy all of Elibe) were all individually considered stronger than Nergal. They were too much for Athos, until Ninian came in and one-shotted two of them and weakening the 3rd. And even the weakened version took considerably more effort given Nergal didn't exhaust the party unlike the Dragon. In Eliwood's route, there was a moment where people presumed Eliwood did some self sacrifice final blow, but luckily turned out to be outright. In Hector's route, Eliwood was about to be finished, but was basically rescued by Hector, and Athos exhausted himself and basically died later on. Nergal didn't really give that much threat, and it's implied (And consistent with in game estimations) that Athos using Aureola basically owns Nergal and was more than a match for him on his own. And in the end, while Niime is very wise and experienced, she also isn't omniscient. And the planetary stuff have simply been hypothesized and not truly proven or reached.
Yeah, there was a fabled human history that just said it was the Dragons who did it. But it was "Divine Weapons clashing with the Dragons" giving the impression it was a combination of both but Divine Weapons held more weight to the feat. And further emphasized by the fact that it was clearly the Dragons who were hit a lot harder by the impact. And consistent with the fact that using a Divine Weapon against a War Dragon basically equals the War Dragon getting OHKO'd. But they are loose supporting examples, and if Roy vs Zephiel is anything to go off of, the Divine Weapons can't be too much weaker than their originals or even the Binding Blade. So while I can't guarantee planet level stuff, Nergal downscaling from the Ending Winter seems like the best thing to go off of.
Oh yeah, I guess I'm getting old to fast. But yeah, Dragon Veins are still based on the Holy Bloods of the First Dragons. And by extension are Extended versions of Quintessence (The official UES throughout the entirety of Fire Emblem). But at the same time, as far as Elibe's version of Dark Magic is. There are still mysterious dark tomes with unknown effects. Niime couldn't even predict what was going to happen when she was ordered to use the spell which froze the river. Which does imply that in FE6-7, there are some odd one outs when it comes to some Dark Tomes exceeding or being beyond the control of what most magic users can output normally. It is still true that being a stronger caster generally holds more weight than using a stronger tome, hence why some character can over power an Fimbulvetr user with just a regular Fire tome, but Forblaze of course is much stronger than what any individual mage/sage is able to use normally.
