Quote Originally Posted by PeaTearGriffin View Post
And that's the strange part. I think many people would figure that 1/14th the aether would be less effective at repelling meteion because this game does establish that having more or less aether makes a difference in this universe, but the final days/sundering event kind of ignores that rule and shows that an individual shard is just as good at repelling an attack from meteion as unsundered etheirys.
Just because Zodiark stopped the continuation of the Final Days doesn’t mean it’s only just powerful enough to stop it.

It was created as the epitome of a very powerful if the THE most powerful society’s creation magic and made up of the aether of a large chunk of their people in the form of a living god that can rewrite the laws of nature. Considering what little we know of how aether and dynamis interact, Zodiark is likely overkill in its role of blocking the Final Days to the point that 1/14 of its power is sufficient.

But remember that just blocking it isn’t the only thing Zodiark was built for and that it had to fix the world too. By the time of the Sundering, Zodiark had already finished with the heavy lifting goals only a god could accomplish.