Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
Case in point: the seventh Rejoining succeeded, but the Calamity was a joke by comparison to the first six. Before you jump on me about "so we should just allow another calamity, then!?"
I'm more likely to jump on you for claiming to know the devastation previous Calamities caused... Given how much Allag, Nym, Amdapor and Mhach stuff is still kicking around, I'm incline to think none of them were that bad... Civilizations "resetting" is not dependent on a Calamity, Belah'dia and Sil'dih being prime examples. Both rose and fell between the Sixth and Seventh Calamity/Rejoining. As did whatever we call the Dravanian society Ishgard destroyed...

Lets pretend we left Ishgard alone though, Nidhogg flew in and wreaked the place... Thordan didn't do anything, there was no attempt by Lahabrea to use him for the final Rejoining... Ishgard fell to Nidhogg, not to Bahamut... 1,000 years from now, who'd know the difference? The massive Space Katamari Calamity is what would be remembered, people would just assume Ishgard fell because of that, like we assume all prior civilizations fell because of their respective Calamities.

If they're not resetting civilizations instantly, they're not so bad? Tell that to all the people that died in them, or worse were manipulated into facilitating them...