Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
It has to be timed right. The Source has to be primed and ready to recieve the flood of aspected aether from the designated shard, otherwise that aether has nowhere to go and just ruins the shard instead.

Once it's ruined it's ruined, you can't turn a pile of ashes back into the tree it once was (well maybe we can, depends where the story goes I suppose. The Ascians never figured it out though, that much is certain.)
Considering what Golbez said about redeeming the star, I suspect part of Season 2 maybe about reversing the corruption on the 13th. Not to mention if Golbez and the 4 elemental lords are the main antagonist of Season 2 then we basically have one main antagonist per expansion for the next 10 years.

The other part is maybe about showing us the process of the 13th becoming what it is now. We know the simple version of what happened but there is always something more complicated.