Let's Talk the Twins and Their End Goals

[Nalien]

A Flood of Light seems to be the first hinted doom, but what the other could be I don't yet know.

Our last scheduled Calamity was the Warriors of Darkness planning to kill us. Elidibus is impatiently waiting for orders to come take us out. I know what my guess is.

IIRC the Calling mentions the Calamity first, then Light? So we lose to Elidibus and that's a Calamity, obviously not going to happen so we win, then keep winning, Flood of Light.

I can very much see this whole warning ending up with multiple meanings though, and given Alphinaud is hanging around a self-proclaimed Ascian slayer? We already know what beating all the Ascians has done for one shard... I can see it loosely applying to the twins in some way, but certainly not a "They were evil all along!" way, just a "Good intentions can have bad consequences" kinda deal. I can also see a Zorn/Thorn duo just showing up soon, with Meltigemini in the works, to fit the "twin dooms" motif, and of course there's Hydaelyn/Zodiark. I expect this to be a theme going forward given how much it can potentially apply to. Heck you could even potentially apply it to Elidibus and Zenos (twin Zenos'), or Elidibus and Solus (twin Ascians). I'd be very surprised if they don't drag this out, I'm sure we'll stop something by 4.55, but I can see 5.x making a habit of going "Is this "Twin Dooms"?"

[LineageRazor]

It's a lòie yes, but it has a truth in the fact that primals do kill the enviroment by draining the aether, as such it might aswell be a truth for them

Don't forget that even without the aether-draining thing, Primals also can instantly and completely brainwash almost anyone at any time. That is ridiculously frightening, and a good reason to want to be rid of them even if they WEREN'T also walking environmental disasters.

We already know what beating all the Ascians has done for one shard...

Careful with this... The writers have been deliberately vague as to just what causes a Flood of Light, and we don't know that "beating the Ascians" is the cause. If anything, it seems as though the Ascians are working as mediators, regulating just how well a world's heroes progress, and Floods happen when they're either too heavy-handed (Darkness) or light-touched (Light). While, as the Warrior of Light, we know that "us vs the Ascians" is the true meta-game, the NON-meta-game is organized BY the Ascians, with the Warriors of Light on various eras and planets as the pawns.

We're supposed to be obedient pawns, as well, but that isn't working out so great, and Elidibus is clearly starting to get agitated.

Regardless, in the Ascians game, it's supposed to be "us vs ???", and when we do too well or poorly against ???, a Flood happens, so the Ascians try to arrange things so that neither extreme happens. They've failed twice, now (unless the Flood of Light was a deliberate effort to get Hydaelyn's attention focused elsewhere), which is a big reason why the meta-game arose in the first place. We've good reason not to place much confidence in the Ascians' ability to regulate things, even if they WEREN'T plotting multi-planet genocide. Anyway, the ??? noted above? We don't know what that is, and that's exactly what the writers want. I find it likely that we never will be told, either - the whole "balance of Light and Darkness" thing starts to fall apart when you go into any specifics as to just what is Light and what is Darkness.

The vagueness makes writing so much easier as well, as literally ANY ACTION WE MAKE can serve the Light or the Darkness, as the plot demands!