Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
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A good theory as any, except that XII's world and XI's worlds exist simultaneously to XIV. Evidence being Lightning and Shantotto visiting us. Another, more concrete reasoning would be that it's already been explicitly stated that XIV's world is its own. This of course only discounts your last paragraph, not the first two. You could be entirely right about the planet being a primal.

An idea that could help that along would be that Hydaelyn was a regular primal on the planet Zodiark, and existed for long enough that she absorbed all of the aether of the planet and eventually became the planet itself. And the Ascians are just people who escaped the aether-absorption and are trying to turn things back to the way things used to be, "rejoining" Hydaelyn's aether back to the original world, Zodiark. Yeah, that's probably a crazy idea...