Quote Originally Posted by TankHunter678 View Post
We also were told that the Flood of Light would achieve the same result on the first, that it would be reduced to a void of light. As we have come to learn even the Empty, a place that is a void of light, can be restored through the use of the systems behind the flood.

It would also make for a good expansion story to be going and restoring the ability for the 13th to sustain life for the wayward souls that arrived on the source/first from that shard.
This is... very wrong... given everything that we currently know. We have known for years (since 3.4) that a Flood of Light does the opposite of a Flood of Darkness. A Flood of Darkness results in a place void of aether and filled with life. A Flood of Light results in a place void of life and filled with aether.

The Empty is not Void of Light; it is in fact filled with it. It is also filled with aether, if extremely Umbral (static) aether. The entire point of using Eden is to make the aether less Umbral (static) so that it can function as elemental aether again and support life.

Eden would not work in the Void as the Void has no aether for Eden to work with. The first thing that would have to be done to "restore" the Void/13th Shard would be to find some way to make it produce aether again naturally. Which is currently beyond anything we can do. The life in the Void gets aether not from any aether in the Void, but by stealing it from the Source. That stolen aether doesn't replenish the Void's aether stores though. It just gets hoarded by whatever life acquired it.