Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
Is there some line I missed that's leading people to assume we're 9/14 instead of 2/14?

It seems a bit of a leap to assume that just because a shard merged with the source that the separate chunk of WoL soul from that shard automatically sought out and merged with the source WoL.
As for whether or not we have the worth of '8/14' of an Ancient's soul before the end of 5.0, Emet himself states that we have been '7 times rejoined'. In the scene at the bottom of the Ladder, he basically says that souls on the Source do benefit with some sort of reinforcement from the Rejoinings, and that the survivors of all the Rejoinings would be 'equal to' the Ascians.
In further reference to the 'shards' that have rejoined us being the shards of our original self's soul, Hythlodeaus says that our (& Ardbert's) soul colour is very distinct (and implied unique) and have the same 'hue'. If we just had random soul shards spliced onto ours, I doubt it would be the exact same as Ardberts' because then we'd no longer be 'the same person'.

Put more succinctly:
i) Emet calls us 7 times rejoined.
ii) Emet claims that the survivors of the Final Rejoining would be 'equal' to the Ascians, meaning that soul reinforcment does occur, and that we have 8/14 of an Ancient's soul by 2.0
iii) Ardbert is a shard of our soul, having the same 'soul colour'. In order for our 'soul colour' to remain the same after 7 other shards have merged onto it implies that the shards were also of the same colour. Ardbert rejoins us, so 8/14 becomes 9/14.