Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
I forgot to mention G'raha. He doesn't have the Echo, but is 8x rejoined which could only happen if he were a sundered Ancient.
Because the Ancients weren't the only people sundered? There was also the new life that was created after the laws of the star were rewritten, brand new souls that were created from seemingly nothing.

Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
No bit here. Shadowbringers was about laying the truth of the world bare. You just happen to not like the truth, because it's hard to deal with.

You can be reductionist towards the truth if you'd like. The truth is that everyone on every shard is real, but they're living on the borrowed souls of those who were wasted by Hydaelyn. Those same souls still get to live after Rejoinings.

The events of the game can be boiled down in any number of ways, and a boiled down reading will always be far off. Just because you boil down what I say while also applying your own perspective to it doesn't make it any less the truth. /shrug
I mean you do realize that Shadowbringers is pretty much all about how the Ascians' worldview is flawed, right? Even if you regard Hydaelyn negatively, preventing calamity is still the act of saving countless people, the fact that someone's soul becomes a little bit denser doesn't change the fact that millions of people died to make that happen. To "lay the truth of the world bare", it's genocide. Plain and simple.