Quote Originally Posted by ICountFrom0 View Post
I've been thinking about this, and nobody else in this topic seems to have looked at it, but...

Everybody on the source, who had been an original person, is now split into 14 people spread across all 14 shards due to the devision.
Those who where strong enough reincarnated and echoed down through history.

When two shards joined, all the souls on them joined too, becoming a new stronger person who will think they had always been that person.

This means that with 6 calamaties, we are 7/14th of a complete person, half the soul of the 3 ascians who never where divided by the fight between hydalin and zodark.

The flood of light is 90% of the ether of an entire world being skewed to the light. Some major potion of that was sealed into the wardens to maintain this imbalance. We where attempting to hold 90% of the aether of an entire world, and all of it in one aspect. Yes it's a shard world, yes it's only 1/7th of the total power that there is on the source, but that's still quite a bit.

The old hero of that world, just happens to be one of the fragments of you, and rejoins himself with you, and becomes consumed. This makes you 8/14th it takes you over half complete.

That's the edge needed it seems to take you from handling 6 of them, to being able to handle the totality of it, of having all 7 spirits in you. This lets you get a handle on the power, just enough to get it under control, and then forge that power, with guidance from Ryne, into a blade of light, releasing it back into the world, not as light, but simply as aether that has been used, allowing the world to start recovering.

Course, now we are even harder to kill then we ever have been before...
Just so you remember, there was indeed a 7th calamity involving a dragon primal breaking out of a moon prison and laying waste to the land which, despite any mitigations to its far reaching consequences thanks to a certain Archon, did indeed result in the rejoining of a shard, so we should be 9/14 of a full ancients soul by the end of 5.0