Quote Originally Posted by Riastrad View Post
It is an option for us though. We didn't know it at the time...
If we didn't know we could do it, it's not an option.

And in any case it wasn't because of Azem's power, because the other Ascians can't do it that way. They also have to abandon their mortal host and find a new one in the destination world; meanwhile, Emet is puzzled and fascinated by the fact that the Exarch seems to have summoned us with our body intact, implying that this is something beyond even their ability.

We made it across the Rift in one piece because we weren't sent, but summoned by a method that the Ascians did not know existed.

And the reason we were able to be summoned is that Minfilia went first and halted the Flood so G'raha could go there and summon us to do our part. There is no getting around that sequence and skipping straight to "us saving the First" because those other pieces had to be in the right positions to make it happen.