Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
I have a question.

I've been skimming through the story and not really taking in any of the finer details, so if this is totally off the table for reasons we've already been told please correct me. But is there a possibility that the "key" and its powers of interdimensional fusion (I think it's called?) was potentially Azem's answer to the problem of the Final Days and the Sundering? We know they disappeared and that they "sought to defy fate in their own way," and I find it interesting that it's termed "dimensional fusion" when it's being referred to as an object that supposedly enables travel, particularly since fusing dimensions is surely the reversal of creating and dispersing dimensions, or shards, as the Sundering did? It seems to me more that the existing Alexandria fused itself with the Source, particularly considering the remnants of the old city still remain, or am I misreading another pluck and drop as with the Crystal Tower? Environs seem much harder to "travel" through dimensions than a single building, though, and the way we have parts of Yyasulani with parts of the Ninth feels again more like a "fusion" to me, but like I said I haven't been keeping up with the current lore and theories at all and could be way off base, lol.

Spoilers on FFIX ahead:

The first time I heard the expression Dimensional Fusion it reminded me of the main plot of Final Fantasy IX, on which the planet Terra is terraforming Gaia so Terra inhabitants may live once again.
It was partially thwarted by the heroes.

Its process had already began and there is no definite answer in FFIX if it was completely halted.

Though, at the end of FFIX the Crystal that holds all creation together was destroyed and a eternal being appeared saying as long as there is the desire to die, he will someday come back and destroy everything once and for all, then disappear in a purple lighting effect too much similar to the thunder calamity to be a coincidence.

So, if Ninth really is the world of FFIX, heavily inspired
or not, the technology of Dimension Fusion was Terran and may have been studied by Gaians and of Calyx and Sphene's generation to save their lives from the levying calamity.