Are we no longer warriors... (Spoilers!)

[Mirhd]

This isn't exactly true, there have been many solo challenges where we, the player, are about to lose when she refreshes our bars completely to keep going, or just shields us from outside powers. This "power" was what originally earned us the "Warrior of Light" title, not just because we couldn't be tempered. Like for instance when Igeyorhm suspends us in the air with her magic to steal away the key to Azusa Lla, we are only able to resist because we gained back a portion of our blessing. Yes, we've become formidable warriors in our own right by this point, but we would have been wiped out long time ago if it weren't for Hydaelyn.

What? Hydaelyn isn't "refreshing our bars"? Not sure where you ever got that from. It's clearly meant as a representation of our will power winning out in desperate situations, else it would have been mentioned somewhere, come on.

This is where I get confused.

Originally source us would have been 1/14.

First calamity / rejoining = 2/14.

So after seven calamties / rejoinings we'd be 8/14 then add Ardbert for 9/14?

What's confusing about it? You on the Source are the "origin point" (so 0, think of it like on a graph), which is not a rejoining, because again, that is the point of origin. Each of the other worlds rejoining during calamities adds +1. Hence 8/14.

To make it a bit clearer: on a line graph, you start at 0, the point of origin. Going along the Y or X axis from 0 to 14 doesn't give you 15, it still just gives you 14 because you started from the point of origin, which is always 0, not 1.