Revelations from Patch 5.3

[Hikari_Kishimoto]

I find it... very convenient... that someone who was really good at manipulating the Lifestream in life is now actually in the Lifestream. And we've already somehow called upon them once...[/hb]

That is a pretty interesting theory. It would be great to see him again.


Something else that came to my mind:

Elidibus, Hades and Varis have been talking about preserving the balance between light and darkness (so that neither a flood of light or darkness was to happen and to destroy the shard/source). As we know, this is what happened to the 13th. (And the reason why it was not possible to rejoin it with the source)

So, why was Hades trying to cause a flood of light on the 1st shard? Wouldn't that have turned it into a smiliar zone like the 13th? (Therefore, unable to be rejoined?)

And...

since all the Unsundered are gone and the light is already pretty strong on the source, doesn't that mean, if we slay the last remaining ascians, the source is going to be overflood by light too?

[ObsidianFire]

Elidibus, Hades and Varis have been talking about preserving the balance between light and darkness (so that neither a flood of light or darkness was to happen and to destroy the shard/source). As we know, this is what happened to the 13th. (And the reason why it was not possible to rejoin it with the source)

So, why was Hades trying to cause a flood of light on the 1st shard? Wouldn't that have turned it into a smiliar zone like the 13th? (Therefore, unable to be rejoined?)

This was gone into in 5.0. To cause a Rejoining to happen, a world has to be brought to the brink of a Flood, but not actually Flood. The Rejoining has to happen before the pressure gets too much. Our going around killing Lightwardens is bringing the 1st Shard back from the brink of a Flood, but also back from the high light energy needed to cause a Rejoining. Which would making the Ascian's efforts on the 1st Shard go to waste.