PREDICTION: Sarda will not ask the light warriors to retrieve the air orb, and will instead release them from their slavery! However, the light warriors will end up finding the air orb anyway after a series of whacky shenanigans.

No, I think Sarda is Red Mage. As Red Mage, he already experienced all of this so he knew billions of years ago what was going to happen. Also, I suspect that BM is like Shiva and White Mage is like that other character (Krishna?) that begins life. WM began the universe and BM is about to end it. Red Mage went back to the past in a desperate attempt to become God and save all of existence from him but he screwed up and got there a few seconds to late. After about twelve billions years of contemplation Sarda/Red Mage now understands that this was all meant to be and is just part of the natural cycle of the universe. BM will destroy all of existence and thus sew the seeds of the universe's rebirth. Of course he will still torture BM every chance he gets along the way but that is only to be expected.

And Onion Kid is clearly going to be Chaos anyways.

From what I know of Hindu mythology;

The creator (WM)= Brahman
The preserver (RM)= Vishnu (Krishna was one of several representations of him on Earth)
The destroyer (BM)= Shiva

Who said BM is running out of evil? Its his hidieously evil side that seems to be having problems, and note the line BM's 'good' side said...

The distinction blurs a little more every day...

My read of that, is that the evil in BM personality is becoming consolidated in BM's 'good' side, which represents the voice of reason in BM's head. So instead of doing evil, just because it feels good, the sort of evil he's moving toward, is the kind of evil that serves a purpose.

That purpose might just be the destruction of everything, but its still a purpose.

SWB

Thoe little fudgemuffins have screwed up every mission I've given them so far... I'm not sure if I'll let them get the air orb.

And how did they not die going for the water orb? I tried so hard to place Ur there at just the right time to kill them. I almost got rid of the annoying stuck up one. Or one of them, at least.

You should give some gnomes a call. They should whip up a machine of ultimate doom in no time.

Why not send them after the air orb and send an army of robots to destroy them?

Why not wait for the Warmech to do it?

Send them back in time, monsters were harder back then.

On another note, i got FF III friday, and holy crap there is an airsub in it. I thought Brain pulled the airsub out of his butt, but it looks like he had help.

That may be true, but go evern FARTHER back... and they're dumb as a doorknob. However, not as dumb as the USA's president.