It Hydaelyn sundered herself, why doesn't First Hydaelyn handle the flood of light?

[LilimoLimomo]

She didn't sunder herself; there's only a single Hydaelyn.

[Jonnycbad]

She didn't sunder herself; there's only a single Hydaelyn.

Literally look at the image in the OP.

[LilimoLimomo]

Literally look at the image in the OP.

Ah, my eyes apparently missed that, thanks for pointing me to it.

Honestly, my best guess would be a mistranslation or perhaps even a writing error. Zodiark's body was quite literally separated, with different parts of it in different shards. Meanwhile, Hydaelyn's body on The Source seems complete and we don't see any physical evidence of Hydaelyn on other shards. For example, when Zodiark died, his dark-aspected aether on the 13th was released. If some aspect of Hydaelyn existed on the 13th, then it would have resulted in a release of light-aspected aether, which would definitely have been noticeable and of great interest to "Golbez". But we don't hear anything about that, either in actual events or speculations by the Scions, etc when discussing restoring the 13th. Similarly, the need to send the Word of the Mother to the 1st suggests that there was no Hydaelyn there, because if Hydaelyn had in some way been on the 1st it would have been more efficient to just do something herself rather than to:
1. empower an otherwise powerless person
2. transport them between shards

Much of which you said yourself in your first post...and I agree with you! ^^

So all in all, Occam's Razor suggests to me that this is simply an example of humans making mistakes rather than an actual phenomenon in the world of FF14.

[Jonnycbad]

Ah, my eyes apparently missed that, thanks for pointing me to it.

Honestly, my best guess would be a mistranslation or perhaps even a writing error.

It's basically the same in every other language so it's not an error.

German: Um Zodiark zu bändigen und hier zu versiegeln, entschloss Hydaelyn die Welt und damit auch sich selbst zu zersplittern. Hydaelyn war sich dieses Umstands wohl bewusst und entschloss sich daher, Zodiark - und mit ihm auch sich selbst und das Gestirn - zu zersplittern um ihn hier versiegeln zu können.

Source: [https://youtu.be/5HtdLS9pE4g?t=820](...dLS9pE4g?t=820)


French: [https://youtu.be/vMP4A-M2fcQ?t=780](...4A-M2fcQ?t=780)

ハイデリンの願いはゾディアークの消滅ではなかったことだ。
終末の根本的な原因を断てたわけではない以上、
ゾディアークがいなくなれば、それは再開しうる……。
ゆえに彼女は、世界と自分を巻き込んでまで、
ゾディアークを分割し、封じるという手を選んだのだ。
Hyadaelin’s wish wasn’t for the destruction of Zodiark. As long as the fundamental reason for the end of the world remained, if zodiark were to disappear, it could all happen again…. That is why she chose to split up zodiark and seal him away, even if it meant that both she and the world would be wrapped up along with it.