Quote Originally Posted by Puksi View Post
If I understand correctly, for the Rejoining of a shard to be successful, there has to be an equally catastrophic shift on the Source. The First was tilted to Light too fast for the Ascians to balance out the destruction on the Source, so Vauthry was corrupted to be a stopgap until the conditions were ready. The Rejoining would have then brought about the Eighth Umbral Calamity.
I think this part in bold I get. Where I get confused was how ridding the the first of the light wardens would also stop black rose, which is directly tied to the 8th calamity. Could it be that their fates are tied? If so it makes it all the more interesting that while we took care of the first, Zenos also single handedly and coincidentally eliminated the black rose threat on the source. Leaving Elidibus had to retreat to rethink his strategy entirely. However, I still haven't done any 5.1 content, so that is the impression I was left with.