Revelations from SHADOWBRINGERS

[EdwinLi]

That's not rejoining, that's overwriting timelines - only one version survives and the other is "thrown out". And you're only thinking about the Source, not the shards - we've seen that the worlds aren't identical copies like that. The differences are far greater than "character X died on the Source but survived on the First" - entire civilisations are different.

Additionally, replacing the Source with "a version of the Source where the Ascians never existed" is near impossible. They didn't just cause the death of a few people we like; they're entwined through all of history. The Allagan Empire might not exist; the Garlean Empire would not exist; the War of the Magi well might have been their doing. The Sundering itself might be erased.

This is an entirely different issue to the Rejoining ofthe current worlds, to say the least.

It is still a possible "Rejoining" result as it has been used before in certain stories when they fused together Two or multiple Parallel worlds.

The other option is a bit complicated because they have to take into considerations what the Rejoining actually means if it is done through a Non-Calamity method. That one can result in a completely new and Larger world that combines all the lands of all remaining Shards that was not destroyed by their select element and forced back into the Source thus becoming new "Continents" for future expansions to explore in a Ascian/Zodiark free world.

It is difficult now to determine the result of a Non-Calamity rejoining because we only know about what happens when a Rejoining happens in a Calamity method which would basically destroy all life in the shard so it can become the elemental energy needed to return to the source. However, a Non-Calamity rejoining may not bring the destruction of the Shard lands but instead may preserve it and add it into the world.

[Iscah]

It is still a possible "Rejoining" result as it has been used before in certain stories when they fused together Two or multiple Parallel worlds.

Other stories. Not this one. It is not a concept that works here.

We don't have multiple copies of the Source that diverged in the recent past like your example scenarios.

If we did have them and they merged, that's not an "everyone lives" outcome. That's "one version of everyone lives and erases the other one". (Which is in fact what the Future Ironworks team were attempting to do to their own timeline, but is a completely different phenomenon to Rejoining.)

I don't see it as a good outcome. It discards character growth, and ignores the way that one character's death might be a catalyst for another's maturation.

It goes against the overall theme of the story - of moving forward and appreciating what we have instead of trying to restore it to how it once was but cannot be again.

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And on combining the shards into some new Frankenstein's monster of a planet, no. You can't just do that. It would wreak havoc with the natural world.

The shards are copies occupying the same space, not fragments of a larger whole that can be reassembled.

[EdwinLi]

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Well all we can do is speculate on what and what cannot happen from what we only know currently.

We don't know the results since all we go on is from what we currently know and what we theroize what may happen.

A lot of things can change through the course of 5.1 to 6.0 that changes everything we know about the game's lore considering they open up the can of wurms called the "Original World" and the "Original Soul of WoL". 5.0 started the spark to question everything we know about the world while confirming certain speculations as true. Now as said in the 5.0 finale, we cannot predict what will happen in the future anymore, only watch and see what will be the results.

i expect to see a lot more lore about the Original World and how the Sundering actually happened while maybe actually get to see a vision on the actual events that allow us to understand more about the True History of the FF14 Universe. Maybe include a few story events and instances where WoL gets to be experience important aspects of the Original Soul's life to have first hand view of the events leading to the Original Calamity and what the Original World was like beyond Amaurot and possible other Ancient Civilizations that existed during the Original World.