Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
Did Ultima even used for calamity? I don't think so. Considering the WoL regale her with their story, might be that she thought not sealing Ultima will affect the timeline. Either that or simply because ultima threatens the Source, and She can't have that can she, since the final fight against meteion hasn't happened yet.

And the prevented calamity you mentioned, the First? She definitely knew how crucial it is in order for us to defeat emet and elidibus there and for the time travel technology. So of course she's going to prevent it. But the other seven calamites? rip to those shards.
I say Ultima was plausibly another Calamity that she stopped because Ultima generally checks the boxes of other confirmed Calamity-capable things we've seen and stopped that weren't actually causing Calamities at the time (Ultima Weapon, King Thordan, Alexander, Shinryu, Eden). Granted, those boxes are basically 'big, scary and conspicuously timable', but it's also notable that the situation around her was fairly close to the time of the Fourth Umbral Calamity, and she appears largely earth-elemental from her fight and concept. All that suggests that she might possibly have been planned by the Ascians to be a potential catalyst for the Calamity eventually caused by the Crystal Tower. Which, again, is a big reason why Hydaelyn would've had trouble; the Ascians had the capacity to get a lot of balls rolling and don't really mind how many don't hit the mark as long as one eventually does, while Hydaelyn would have needed to block every single goal.

But again, I say 'plausible', because while it sounds legit if you were to say that was what was going on, there's no actual evidence for this.