Thread: The Road to 5.0

Originally Posted by Alleo

she does absorb other shards only because she lost too much light in a calamity and is forced to take the shard back in to "survive"

I've been trying to figure out where this started for ages.

We know only that a sufficient confluence of (presumable aetherial instability-related) chaos will "blow out" the "barrier" between a reflected dimension and the Source, causing the reflection to be essentially "deleted", reduced to pure aether, and rushed back into the Source dimension.

"Hydaelyn is knowingly eating them to survive." is quite a leap from that known point. (i.e. a valid theory, but just a theory)

Kudos to whoever called it from so far out if it proves to be true, but until then, that's a big ol' [citation needed], imho.

Originally Posted by The Word of the Mother

They seek to tear down the barriers which surround the Source.

Originally Posted by Warrior of Darkness

For there is but one way to restore the balance and save our home: the Ardor. Calamitous destruction with the power to break down the barriers between planes, and see our worlds rejoined.

Originally Posted by Adventurer's Journal

And so, to prevent this fate, they joined hands with the Ascians and came to the Source. Here, they intend to bring about another Umbral Calamity, for only through such unbridled destruction may the barriers between planes be broken down, and the First and the Source made one.

Alisaie
The Warriors of Darkness spoke of how the Ardor had the power to “break down the barriers between planes,” that our worlds might be rejoined. I would ask that you research this for us.

(Later...)

Urianger
Though their copious use of allegory defieth any single interpretation, the oracles paint a most disturbing picture─one of worlds parallel to our own, apart yet linked, reduced to ruin with every Umbral Calamity...

Alphinaud
"Seven times have they succeeded."
Then of ten and three, only six worlds remain.

Urianger
Aye. All is as my lady Minfilia spake unto thee.
As for what becometh of these reflections when they and the Source are rejoined...
Frail flesh undone in Umbral fires,
Each soul surrend'reth to Her call,
To flow unto the endless sea,
There to endure as one and none.

Alisaie
Then...then if the Warriors of Darkness succeed, everyone in their world will die?

Urianger
In essence, aye. The verse speaketh of the renunciation of the flesh, and subsequent return to the Lifestream. However, this fate may yet be preferable to the alternative, for if the First were to fall to transcendent Light in the manner the Warriors of Darkness described, it would give way unto a void wherein none may know either life or death. Far better to die, they reason─for in death there is life. The essence of a soul which returneth unto the Source may be born anew. Saved. Such, at least, is their belief, I surmise.