Quote Originally Posted by Seraph_Variel View Post
As far as my understanding goes:

Calyx just barely escaped with his (completely digital) life. He's literally a program. Very likely his entire 'folder', for lack of better terms just barely escaped when the terminal exploded. His soul has already rejoined the aetherial sea or been consumed, depending on how soul cells actually work. (I'm banking on soul cells literally consuming the soul and destroying it, hence its inevitable unsustainability, but that's a different discussion.)

Regardless, he just jumped data drives. The black void is either the 'digital world' of said data drive, or just the implication of 'an unknown space', likely the latter, somewhere within Alexandria where he manifests his faux body to converse with the unknown ascian.

The black void I believe is also used in a few cutscenes with Urianger and ascians during ARR/HW, but I could be wrong.

The aetherial rift we see in both The Chrysalis and the midfight cutscene of Seat of Sacrifice is not where the 7.3 cutscene takes place. Both we, and ARR Minfillia both traverse into this space.
From what I understood he was trying to upload himself into the Primal, not another drive somewhere. And if that connection was severed his entire folder would have been lost.
And even if he wuld have been able to transfer somewhere, how is an ascian inside some electrope harddrive saying "hi?" Granted electrope is very similar to crystals that ascians use in the first place, so there is some connection there.

I don't think I've seen Urianger, but I have seen all the other Warriors of Darkness in the space with Minfliadelyn when they stopped the flood. But Urianger was only a spy doring Heavensward portion, but in ShB it was the actual Nyelbert.

And yea I do know that the actual Eatherial Rift" is different from the dark dimension place, I just don't have a name for it. other than the rift, cause it is stated that the Ascians use the rift specifically when they bodyhop and in order to stay in the material learm.
And that place is only accessible with the power of the echo.