Quote Originally Posted by Shookbeast View Post
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).
It would go against the theme though because they would say: Well the rest should be fine with being imperfect beings but the WoL somehow needs to have all their shards restored.

I just dont see how that would really further the story at all. What would it bring to it? What would it truly give to the WoL? Since we dont really get some old memories back when we get rejoined with Ardbert I also doubt we would suddenly gain some insight on Azem. And even if we did, what would that truly change? The WoL is not THE Azem. We are reborn as a new person, with new loved ones, with new experiences. We wont just be Azem again, that one is death.

And it would make the WoL even more powerful that they are right now...which enemy should even stand a chance against a fully restored WoL who can just bascially use creation magic on a whim?

Yes some of Zodiark influence is decreasing but that is only for the parts that were still active, like the shroud of aether to ward of Meteion. Of course the planet would see noticeable changes when the aether suddenly gets much thinner. If anything he ever did was changed though then we would all die because he was the one undoing all the damage the Final Days caused. So if Hydealyns sundering, which was a one time act and not something she had to do over an over, somehow now is reversing then by logic all of Zodiark action would too. Which means everyone will die.