Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
Why? Who would know? As far as I am aware no-one we've spoken to about it is even sure that the 8th calamity world still exists.



He's stating what he chooses to believe has happened. Just as G'raha doesn't really know the fate of that world, they're not really sure of the fate of G'raha.

A separate reflection solves the paradox because G'raha becomes an outside actor, he is no longer interfering in his own past because his own past happened on a different world to the two he is messing with.
The ascians, whose whole thing is travleing between shards and arranging calamities, would prooooobably have noticed if there was a new 14th shard suddenly split off. Espeiccally because Gra'ha didn't travel back in time to just now, he was on the First for a long time after he went back in time and changed things.

It's a pretty simple 'went back in time, future was changed' story. Nothing about that would suggest a new physical world within the same timeline now exists because of it. Heck we don't even know for sure if the bad future timeline even still exists or not.