The Warrior of Light rejoined

[Nana_Bear]

So, bearing in mind what I said above in my "spoilers so hiding this" post... well, I can see how your (OP's) premise could be entertaining, but it definitely wrecks a whole lot of story, and negates that entire "maturation process," so no---I don't think I'd enjoy it. Glad you enjoy speculating on it, but nope: to me it's fanfic I'd rather not see turned into canon. (I wasn't very happy with the "Tales" story that created the "branching timeline" for the G'raha past, either.)

Now, on what Arkhyna said, sure: it would be fun to find out a bit more what Azem did after the Sundering, and also, I do want us to get to check out Meracydia... but present day version of it, for sure. There's also plenty of worlds out there to explore if we ever get this Cosmic Exploration thing off the ground, lol.

[Iscah]

I wasn't very happy with the "Tales" story that created the "branching timeline" for the G'raha past, either.

The Tales story didn't "create" the branching timeline – that's a logical conclusion of the wider plot. What it does create (and I thoroughly dislike) is that they wrote a happy ending that makes it seem like the entire plot is a waste. The whole point was supposed to be that the other timeline's world had no hope of salvage and all they could do was send G'raha into the past before the aether-killing effects of Black Rose claimed everything.

Now we've got dear Raha mourning lost friends who are actually perfectly fine, and it feels cheap.

[Catwho]

The Tales story didn't "create" the branching timeline – that's a logical conclusion of the wider plot. What it does create (and I thoroughly dislike) is that they wrote a happy ending that makes it seem like the entire plot is a waste. The whole point was supposed to be that the other timeline's world had no hope of salvage and all they could do was send G'raha into the past before the aether-killing effects of Black Rose claimed everything.

Now we've got dear Raha mourning lost friends who are actually perfectly fine, and it feels cheap.

"And in deepest despair, light everlasting."

Even that doomed timeline still has people who hope - and if they could figure out how to cobble together a TARDIS with a latent primal and a giant battery, I think they too might have been able to catch on that Black Rose cause stagnant aether and there might be a way to ward against aethereal corruption using dragon scales.

I don't think we are going to get a fully rejoined Azem, though. Will we pick up a few more shards here and there? Quite possibly.

I think instead we're more likely to get what Jesse Cox calls "The Azemgers" where we end up teaming up with another Azem shard or multiples of them, and they remain their own independent persons.

I'll bet a million gil that we eventually do learn what Azem was doing during the Final Days, though, and it's because they were trying to prevent the catastrophe in their own way.