Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
What I do wonder the whole time: Would the shard be another failure for the Ascians if Minfilia had not stopped the flood of Light or would the world still be ready to rejoin because unlike the void the aether itself was still there just not flowing?
Discussions elsewhere have led me to believe that they had messed up, or rather, Ardbert didn't do what they expected. Hydaelyn-fillia going to the first was by all appearances part of Elidibus's plan to save the First until the time for the Rejoining was right. I think the whole thing with Ardbert and the Warriors of Darkness was just part of a plan to maybe get lucky and score a kill on the WoL, which would almost certainly have caused some major issues as a whole, but I imagine he was doing some planning to set up Urianger to get Hydaelyn to stop the flood...Potentially killing two birds with one stone (Stop the Flood from the early trigger, force Hydaelyn's attention elsewhere).