Crazy Personal Headcanons

[RyuDragnier]

This honestly makes really wonder if/how they'll touch on the reflections other then the 13th going into the future, because while they can't reasonably devote an entire expansion to each, having them all of them relegated to a single expansion where we perhaps need to somehow "reinforce" the boundaries keeping them from rejoining with the Source in order to prevent disastrous consequences for all would feel similarly awkward after how the First was handled.

They'd likely have an expansion for each Shard, and I have a feeling you're right on the money for what we'll have to do. Hydaelyn Sundered the world and Zodiark altered the aethercurrents...since Zodiark being gone currently has the Aethercurrents repairing themselves back into their original state (as shown by the FSH Studium questline), then Hydaelyn being gone means there's nothing keeping the shards separated anymore, they're going to combine. Probably not today or tomorrow, but over time they will...and with possibly the biggest Calamity the world will have ever seen.

In one such scenario, The First and 13th will likely have to be repaired before anything is done. A task easily done due to the excess energy in both. The First has too much light, not enough darkness. The 13th has too much darkness, not enough light...have their energies bleed into each other just enough, and they'll stabilize themselves.

[Rulakir]

This honestly makes really wonder if/how they'll touch on the reflections other then the 13th going into the future, because while they can't reasonably devote an entire expansion to each, having them all of them relegated to a single expansion where we perhaps need to somehow "reinforce" the boundaries keeping them from rejoining with the Source in order to prevent disastrous consequences for all would feel similarly awkward after how the First was handled.

I think the First only worked because it was on the precipice, 9/10 of it had been consumed by the flood so only Norvrandt was left. There's no reason that we know of why the remaining shards (excepting the 13th) wouldn't be full planets and players would rightfully wonder why we could only visit one continent. It's possible one (or more) of them could've obliterated itself similar to any of the worlds in Ultima Thule, but that's not dissimilar from what happened on the First so it'd still feel like a repeat of sorts. Were one embroiled in a world war it could not be safe for us to leave our destination, but they're wanting to move away from war stories (probably for the best).

Personally, I'd rather everything became whole again but I've never liked the sundering, which was compounded given the context of EW. The possibility that everything will eventually right itself brings me a measure of peace. At the very least, my 'crazy personal headcanon' is my WoL merges with all their other shards before returning to the aetherial sea so they can be fully cleansed as Azem and rejoin all their old friends.

Hydaelyn Sundered the world and Zodiark altered the aethercurrents...since Zodiark being gone currently has the Aethercurrents repairing themselves back into their original state (as shown by the FSH Studium questline), then Hydaelyn being gone means there's nothing keeping the shards separated anymore, they're going to combine. Probably not today or tomorrow, but over time they will...and with possibly the biggest Calamity the world will have ever seen.

Only if they all happened at once and assuming there are no mitigation efforts that can be made. I don't know what a rejoining without having to polarize a shard looks like either, maybe it's not as violent as what the Ascians were having to do.

[YianKutku]

When Elidibus got trapped in the Crystal Tower on the First, he was affected by the residual after-effects of the Crystal Tower having crossed space and time.

This helped him gain some understanding of how to manipulate the workings of the Crystal Tower to send us into Elpis, using his own aether as fuel for the time and space manipulation required. Therefore, Elidibus's aether was scattered across the timestream and across dimensions just as the Crystal Tower was, and this is why we get the Warrior Of Light armour set while running Labyrinth Of The Ancients.

[SannaR]

When Elidibus got trapped in the Crystal Tower on the First, he was affected by the residual after-effects of the Crystal Tower having crossed space and time.

This helped him gain some understanding of how to manipulate the workings of the Crystal Tower to send us into Elpis, using his own aether as fuel for the time and space manipulation required. Therefore, Elidibus's aether was scattered across the timestream and across dimensions just as the Crystal Tower was, and this is why we get the Warrior Of Light armour set while running Labyrinth Of The Ancients.

I always thought that it would be either Elidibus or Emet who made the Warrior of Light set in there for being sentimental. Not due to this. Since one of my headcannons is Emet throughout time has been trying to not only find the barrer of Azem's soul, but also try and indirectly try and stir up their memories if they saw hints about their past self. For even though they had our memory crystal he didn't seem to want to force those memories onto us? Meanwhile Elidibus might have forgotten Azem's name and what they looked like but remembered the armor they must have worn at some point. Along with he holding its wearer in high regard at some point.