[SPOILERS]Zodiark, the thirteen shards, and the Source?

[Fenral]

The thing about the Gerun Oracles, though, is that it implies the original state of the world to be one without Hydaelyn or Zodiark. That makes me think a properly reunited world would necessitate killing both, not just letting one take dominance over the other. The problem is figuring out of we can survive that or not. If we can, time to start planning, but if we can't, our heroes would be forced to acknowledge their desire to survive as they are in spite of some dramatic impact on the larger universe, which would be interesting for completely different reasons.

Last thing I want, though, is for this to turn into a Bokurano-esque parallel world deathmatch, at least not without the acknowledgement that the other worlds being destroyed are no less valid than our own. For us to coincidentally be in the "true" world would be kind of a copout if we have to start destroying other worlds.

[appledoze]

Yeah I considered that, and also from what Hydaelyn herself has said through the Word, I'm thinking that perhaps Zodiark and Hydaelyn were in fact one and the same at one point. Then that would mean that the original crystal was being consumed by darkness somehow and it split itself in two in order to stop it.

[MagiusNecros]

Yeah I considered that, and also from what Hydaelyn herself has said through the Word, I'm thinking that perhaps Zodiark and Hydaelyn were in fact one and the same at one point. Then that would mean that the original crystal was being consumed by darkness somehow and it split itself in two in order to stop it.

Considering one is sky blue and the other is a dark magenta...