Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I keep saying this, and I haven't seen a single decent argument to refute it: The Ascians do not need this key, because it does a thing they could already do. They could already cross over into other shards, and by all appearances it was a lot easier for them! The one advantage it had is probably transporting people en masse, and the Ascians don't need that, because they only ever needed one-person transport.

Why would they even care that the mortals pulled this off?



And yeah, I think that we're ultimately running ourselves into walls by thinking we have all the answers to this already. This is very clearly a breadcrumb for future stories, there's no way that we can just intuit every single major figure in its history at this point.


The Key having literally Azem's symbol, it not affecting us (Azem's fragment) and Azem knowing about our existance...maybe it was ALL intended? Maybe Azem created it for...us? Maybe Azem created it knowing than in the future the sundered people would need it?