Sundering and specific character questions. [Spoilers]

[Theozilla]

I personally think the shards are not hit by meteors at all, with any impacts being on the Source, and I believe they can see shooting stars that are on the outskirts of the bubble.

Interesting, so if the Shards never get hit by Meteors, would that mean none of the Black Mages (or whatever is analogous to them) on the Shards would call their Level 3 Limit Breaks "Meteor" then? (since no one would have ever seen/experienced a meteorite hitting their planet?)

For some reason the idea that the Shard's planets would have never experienced a meteor impact is what I find too unbelievable (don't know why this specifically), that's why I think non-living things would "duplicate" upon coming into impact with the Source/Shards.

[RyuDragnier]

Interesting, so if the Shards never get hit by Meteors, would that mean none of the Black Mages (or whatever is analogous to them) on the Shards would call their Level 3 Limit Breaks "Meteor" then? (since no one would have ever seen/experienced a meteorite hitting their planet?)

For some reason the idea that the Shard's planets would have never experienced a meteor impact is what I find too unbelievable (don't know why this specifically), that's why I think non-living things would "duplicate" upon coming into impact with the Source/Shards.

It would fit with the alternate names for spells. Instead of summoning a Meteor, the LB3 would be Comet.

The problem with the idea of a non-living thing duplicating is that it means Omega would have been duplicated, and it's something I'm sure Omega would have noticed, considering it's not a living being but a robot with no soul (at first).

[Theozilla]

It would fit with the alternate names for spells. Instead of summoning a Meteor, the LB3 would be Comet.

The problem with the idea of a non-living thing duplicating is that it means Omega would have been duplicated, and it's something I'm sure Omega would have noticed, considering it's not a living being but a robot with no soul (at first).

I figured Omega could be the single exception to the non-living thing duplicating, something like the fact it had the ability to travel through the Rift to different dimensions/including Shards potentially, would make it immune to duplication, unlike other non-living things like meteors and other space junk.

[Vyrerus]

Interesting, so if the Shards never get hit by Meteors, would that mean none of the Black Mages (or whatever is analogous to them) on the Shards would call their Level 3 Limit Breaks "Meteor" then? (since no one would have ever seen/experienced a meteorite hitting their planet?)

For some reason the idea that the Shard's planets would have never experienced a meteor impact is what I find too unbelievable (don't know why this specifically), that's why I think non-living things would "duplicate" upon coming into impact with the Source/Shards.

No, you can chock all meteor spells in game up to the first Final Days bestowing a racial memory to all souls of the terrifying power of meteors, and then those souls passing on said terrifying magic to the new souls. Remember, the Echo vision for people is that meteor shower.

Alternatively, if we wanted to get like... hella less messy and sorta meta... we could chock the shards up to actually being in the same physical space but on entirely different orbits, as though they themselves were meteors/comets/asteroids. Not catalogued as normal stars either from the aetherial interference or by having their orbits be so far out of sink an in a weird direction in 3-D space around the sun that we could only see them physically with a telescope like every 1,000 years or something. Of course, that calls into question the idea that they'd be too far away at some point and all their inhabitants should freeze to death, but I suppose it's also theoretically possible for a planet's orbital to go in any degree direction around a sun, such that they could all at one point have had the same physical space, but due to different velocities they only ever pass through it after that. It's wild to think about, and there's probably something in astrophysics that goes against it, but trust me, we can make this wonky fiction make sense. Just gotta think about it hard enough.