6.0 Story Speculations

[Theodric]

The Ascians did not immediately seek to rejoin the Sundered worlds and sow chaos. They first attempted to understand the Sundered and live alongside them - but found them wanting due to their behaviour and actions. I'd also assume that alternative methods of restoring the Source to what it once was were pursued but ultimately only the Rejoining plan proved to be something that would work.

[BlitzAceRush]

The Ascians did not immediately seek to rejoin the Sundered worlds and sow chaos. They first attempted to understand the Sundered and live alongside them - but found them wanting due to their behaviour and actions. I'd also assume that alternative methods of restoring the Source to what it once was were pursued but ultimately only the Rejoining plan proved to be something that would work.

Which I don't buy, take our world right now, it is far from perfect but if I came from a different world that existed before it, and claimed I could find nothing of value here it's because I didn't want to find anything. Even during Emet's speech he had some people in front of him who proved that "broken" as he believed them to be, the sundered can be good people, seek to do good and follow through, but he pretty much replied with "not good enough" Part of him wanted us to be good enough, but they also wanted their world and loved ones back, so they set a bar we couldn't reach.

Then it returns to, was there even a reason? I've yet to see any of the "instability" they speak of, the world and shards seem to trundle along perfectly fine in their sundered state, all the damage and calamities are done by the Ascians so outside of them wanting their world back, they have no reason to be doing what they're doing. Perhaps they had a leg to stand on back then, morally questionable as that leg was, but after the sundering, they lost any footing they had, it's no longer about killing some "new primordial just spawned life" suddenly you have 13 shards and the source worth of sentient people and their plan involves causing huge amounts of suffering, killing and ultimately the destruction of the shards these people call home, each time the source is rocked with a calamity in addition to all the chaos and strife they cause there. Countless generations will suffer this pain until only those who survived all that on the source remain, and what's their reward? they too will die.

All this because they want their loved ones back, because they want the world back to the way it was for them, because they think it's better that way with the only justification of "You're not like us, so you don't count as life, so I can do what I want to you" They'll have killed 1000 of times what they'll be bringing back. I sympathised with the unsundered, but they lose all of it the moment they started down this path, they're not trying to save the word, they just want something and don't care what they have to do to get it.

[Yuella]

They first attempted to understand the Sundered and live alongside them - but found them wanting due to their behaviour and actions.

What behaviour and actions would that be? Sounds like cultural differences. If you can't accept them, tolerate them. If you can't tolerate them, at least leave them alone and not kill them.