[Rising Dragon]

Originally Posted by RedKey

Ok, I just finished watching the entire series and... I'm at a loss. I can't understand what the war is all about. Can you guys help me, please?

Spoiler for 3rd series plot:

Let's see: Yuji goes missing, and is later discovered to have merged with the Snake of the Festival. His plan is to make a new world for the Tomogara so that Flame Hazes, Shana in particular, wouldn't need to burn themselves by fighting. For some reason I didn't get, Flame Hazes want to stop him. Why would they want that? Isn't it for the best if Tomogara leave this world?
Anyway, the Snake finally manages to create his Xanadu. Shana hacks it by putting a rule that says eating humans is forbidden. Why? There will be humans in Xanadu too?
So the Tomogara leave, and suddenly the Flame Hazes go 'Oh, I guess it wasn't that bad after all.' and they decide to go to Xanadu too. I mean, really? What was that whole damn war for, then?! Isn't their goal the exact same? Shouldn't they have cooperated in creating the new world? And what was that proclamation from the goddess in mid-fight? Why does it sound like Tomogara and Flames will be fighting in the new world too?
In the end, Yuji battles Shana for... uh... no reason? He wants to be with her, she wants to be with him, yet they end up fighting each other. What for?

Seriously, I feel like I'm missing a large part of the plot, because as of now it makes no sense whatsoever, and I only have confusion in my head. If someone could be so kind as to enlighten me, please do.

Spoiler for Response:

Xanadu would've been a perfect copy of Earth with an endless bounty of Power of Existence, but if that was all, there was nothing stopping Tomogara from eating people in that realm as well, which would just result in a continuing war as Flame Hazes fought to keep the balance and prevent human loss of existence. Also if the Snake screwed up with the creation process then it could potentially unmake all of reality and for some, that's just too great a risk to take. And the majority of Flame Hazes have major grievances against Tomogara and want revenge, and Xanadu could've potentially taken away their very reason to exist--don't let it be said that the Flame Hazes were entirely in the right.

Partially fixed by altering the rules of Xanadu to prevent Tomogara from being able to eat humans within the realm. And I guess the Four Gods wanted to create a warning of sorts--an event where hundreds of thousands of Tomogara lost their lives in one event for feeding on humans, so future Tomogara would be too scared to eat humans and get hunted down by Flame Haze for it.

Can't speak much for the Yuji/Shana conflict; having not seen it yet. So... lover's quarrel, I guess?