Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Is there anything ingame that support such a theory? Because if Hydealyns death would undo the sundering why would the Ascians not just simply try to find a way to her and to kill her?

As far as the state of the reflections: Emet says that we should visit them and that we may be surprised to what we find there. I doubt he meant in the way of: We will find out that they are basically all falling apart and the best solution would be to rejoin them.

Honestly for me the theme felt like: Its okay to be these imperfect beings. We are not worth less than the whole ones. Why then would SE turn around and be like: But now lets just rejoin us anyways. (Especially since rejoining does mean the death of a whole shard...I doubt that we would do that especially after being friends with Ryne and Gaia and all the other people on the first)
I didn’t mean to infer that if we find a reflection in distress - then we’d force it to rejoin. There are plenty of ways we could collect Azem shards without forcing a star to rejoin with the source. (Also, there are plenty of ways for our WOL to collect Azem shards without being the one to murder them). And I think the writers want the reflections to hang around for story-telling reasons. (Although I wouldn’t put it past the writers to do an expansion down the line centered on a surprise calamity/rejoining and all the upheaval/zone re-design that would cause).

And I agree with your stated theme - but I don’t see it conflicting with the possibility of our WOLs somehow becoming Azem. We may find out that being Azem (and an Ancient) isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Or we may find out that the only way to save the day is by embracing our flaws - which seems very Azem-y to me. Azem stands out as an Ancient who didn’t fit in - which would likely be how we would behave as an Ancient.

As far as the theory about the reflections deteriorating without Hydaelyn- that’s just speculation as far as I know. But plausible speculation given how Zodiark is fading away across all reflections. If he and his influence/parts seem to be poofing out - the same may be possible for Hydaelyn.