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EDIT: And yeah, even if 'power and physicality' is reduced with sundering, intelligence very clearly isn't. If intelligence wasn't being sundered, then we wouldn't have seen sundered people outsmart all three unsundered. Pretty easily in all three cases, too. And I wouldn't exactly call Thordan the greatest mind of his generation.
Not entirely sure where you’re getting this from tbh. Lahabrea wasn’t exactly outsmarted, he was powered down from body hopping so long, his mind was essentially gone and we had just fought him.Emet we needed all the light warden aether and rejoining with ardbert and even that probably wouldn’t have been enough had Emet not been “kind.” Ishikawa herself said it was his sentimentality and kindness that led to his downfall. Elidibus we needed the help of another unsundered and time travel. Without it we’d have been dead lol.