What aligments would future calamities even have had?

[Heroman3003]

I don't recall anything being said to that effect. I suspect you are getting confused with the explanation of an individual Rejoining starting as a trickle of aether to the Source before the triggering event for the associated calamity cracks it fully open.

I will have to rewatch ShB expository cutscenes to find where but I do distinctly remember something by someone being said about the balance of sundered and rejoined shards being tipped in favour of rejoined being enough to finish the process. I definitely did not consume any fan content related to ShB for a long time either, all while still being firmly sure of that, so it couldn't have come from that.

[Cleretic]

I will have to rewatch ShB expository cutscenes to find where but I do distinctly remember something by someone being said about the balance of sundered and rejoined shards being tipped in favour of rejoined being enough to finish the process. I definitely did not consume any fan content related to ShB for a long time either, all while still being firmly sure of that, so it couldn't have come from that.

You don't recall this correctly, you've editorialized in your own mind to the point you misremember it. Normally I'd quote the relevant section (I do have this scene recorded), but in this case I actually can't, because it's very long and literally NONE of it describes anything like this. Gamer Escape's got the whole scene transcribed, though.

You also claimed we survived the Eighth Calamity, but we very explicitly did not. Our death is described very directly, right down to showing our corpse. We died to Black Rose pretty early.