Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I completely agree with the rest of your post, but this part... no, I really don't think so. Not saying Pandaemonium's not gonna take some wild turns and give us one hell of an origin story for at least one fairly major villain, but I don't think Pandaemonium's gonna have a huge lore impact. If nothing else, it's got a huge problem of distance; it's basically as far away from the core events of the game as it's possible to get; it's gonna be real hard to drop impactful lore bombs on the game's present day from twelve thousand years in the past.

Granted, they still managed to do a bit of that in the main story, so I wouldn't be too surprised, but I'd be surprised if the impact of Pandaemonium on the present-day setting is anything more than 'now you have an origin story for the namazu, and a sad backstory for Lahabrea and/or Elidibus'.
Eric's sundered shard is clearly the scientist giving the quest. So we have another Gaia equivalent in play on the source if they ever wanna use it later