Quote Originally Posted by Sairys View Post
I don't think that's the safer assumption because of Shadowbringers and the elemental chart.

The first six calamities follow the generative elemental cycle which works clockwise around the wheel. Then we have the "aspected" calamities of Darkness and Light. The elemental chart also contains the Conquests (Earth, Water, Lightning) and Submissions (Fire, Ice, Wind) as well as the Solar(Fire and Earth), Lunar(Water and Wind), and Celestial(Lightning and Ice) pairings, assuming the Astro cards are correct and the chart has Lunar and Solar pairings reversed. If each of those is a potential calamity that's a perfect thirteen unique calamities represented on the elemental chart.
I have accidentally lost this post more times than I care to admit.

I just have to disagree with the idea that the Ascians weren't working on multiple shards at once, even if only one could be rejoined at a time, entirely because of Shadowbringers and learning how the Flood of Light started. We know they were preparing the First for the Rejoining, and the plan until Ardbert ruined it was to have him kill Shadowkeeper to leave the First on the edge, ready to be pushed into Rejoining without actually hitting that point.

While I could be wrong, I just don't think there weren't other plans on other shards in motion, especially since the Ascians were generally working in pairs after the Flood of Darkness. Pushing Sphene's shard towards...I guess Celestial? would be part of it, though I'm not sure if the Lindblum superweapon messed up the balance a bit, it did *not* appear to make a Flood, at least to my understanding. As far as we knew, the world was very Lightning Aspected and nothing more.

I'm wondering how the Solar/Lunar/Celestial Calamities would even work, now that I've been made aware they were a thing.