Elemental Calamities

[Enkidoh]

Calamities are always umbrally aspected by their very nature - they end an Astral Era after all and usher in an Umbral Era. Accordingly the Seventh Calamity was umbrally aspected - it was mentioned in at least one instance as the Seventh Umbral Calamity which all but proves it. Calamities are always destructive, regardless of how long they last.

[Anonymoose]

Calamities are always umbrally aspected by their very nature - they end an Astral Era after all and usher in an Umbral Era. Accordingly the Seventh Calamity was umbrally aspected - it was mentioned in at least one instance as the Seventh Umbral Calamity which all but proves it.

Quotations presented without speculation:

Up until Dalamud's fall, many Sixth Astral Era scholars convinced themselves that the fact there had already been six Calamities—each representing one of the six elements—was proof that there could not be a seventh and that the Sixth Astral era would last indefinitely. However, subsequent study of Garlean Empire legatus Nael van Darnus's Meteor project would eventually lead these scholars to the conclusion that the attack b y Bahamut was indeed a Calamity, though one represented not by any one element, but rather consisting of all the elements charged astrally.

If the scholar is right, and this “end of days” does indeed refer to the Seventh Umbral Calamity, then this supernatural horseman should already be among us, but I don't see any death and destruction around here. Well, no more than normal, anyway..."

Eras came and went. After millennia lying dormant, Dalamud was summoned back to the earth. Its descent triggered the Seventh Umbral Calamity, in the wake of which the Crystal Tower reemerged.