Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Yeah, this is generally an explanation for why it was framed (I think in Heavensward's patches but I'm not certain) that the eighth Calamity was basically the 'last chance' to stop the Ascians.
It wasn't even from within the game, just from early promotional stuff for Shadowbringers.

There was never any hint in the game, so far as I recall, that either the Ascians or the Scions saw any significance in the eighth Rejoining as a turning point in the process. Again, that's just what fans speculated might be the reason why the devs hinted that it would be the last.

As it turned out, that "eighth and final" calamity was the particularly catastrophic Black Rose event, which (at least at the time they said it) they may have intended to mean either the last calamity in that timeline before it was undone, or possibly even the last one before humanity was wiped out entirely by the lingering effects of it.