Season 2 Storyline (another 10 years) [discussion]

[EdwinLi]

The "larger planet" idea has never made sense and I will be annoyed if they go that route.

It's not how rejoining works and it would make a horribly messy world map from a game perspective with the same continents repeating over and over, and that's before you get into the catastrophic effect it would have on each world's climate as they get jigsawed into some other place on a new map.

It's not just a nice fluffy idea, it's one that would be detrimental to the world as it is.

Imagine if we just dropped six Earths' worth of continents between America and Europe. Or three into there and another three into the Pacific. International trade and travel is thrown into chaos, countries that used to be close are now distant, migratory animals have lost their destination and may not find a suitable equivalent in the land that has replaced their home. Ocean currents would be disrupted. The whole thing would be as disastrous as any aetherial calamity.

That will be a issue if History is not Altered.

As I mentioned in my comment above, the way the One World scenario will work is if Reality itself alters the entire planet both appearance wise and history wise so that the world has always been that way. The WoL and maybe a select few of his/her companions may remember the old world being smaller and less civilizations but the new world will function as if it has always been that way since its own history has been altered to account for all possible additions to the planet. That includes animal behavior, country's trading routes adjusted to include civilizations that was never there before, geography of regions, and etc.

We also cannot be certain each shard has the same geography as each other as well despite starting out the same since each shard goes through their own geographical events that greatly alters the appearance of their land.

It is one of the more basic scenario when a One World Scenario happens for the History of the world to adjust itself to account for all possible issues and resolve them all due to how the history is altered.

However, as I said these are all just guess and we won't know how things will end until next week. (You know there will be those small amount that try to beat the entire Endwalker MSQ within 1 or 2 days.)