Thread: Revelations from Patch 4.4

Originally Posted by ObsidianFire

So the same aether drain prior to the 7th Umbral Calamity is being seen world-wide again. Unless Urianger and Y'shtola are mistaken, then it's very good evidence for another Calamity happening. At least, until the next patch and we find out more information.

That still doesn't rule out a Flood of Light. It could just mean that the flood itself *is* the Calamity. (an Astral calamity to match the Umbral?)

If we know it happened before the Calamity *and* before the Flood, that just further suggests they could be the same thing.

Originally Posted by Iscah

That still doesn't rule out a Flood of Light. It could just mean that the flood itself *is* the Calamity. (an Astral calamity to match the Umbral?)

If we know it happened before the Calamity *and* before the Flood, that just further suggests they could be the same thing.

The Seventh Umbral Era is technically the "Astral" calamity (Lore Book 1 states its element was all of them tipped astrally).

"Calamity" in FFXIV is not a general term. The other, more specific term for it is a Rejoining. There's a very good reason the Voice says "Twin Dooms" are coming and then mentions a Calamity and then a Flood. They aren't interchangeable. We also have yet to see any evidence of a Calamity happening on a Shard and a Flood happening on the Source. We do have lots of evidence of Calamities happening on the Source and two Floods happening on the Shards. Going by Occam's Razor, the Source is gearing up for a Calamity again.

A Food and a Rejoining are opposite ideas in a lot of ways. A Rejoining is when a Shard joins the Source because the walls between the Shard and the Source have been broken. A Flood is when a Shard receives an influx of Light or Dark so strong, that either the Shard looses all aether (Flood of Darkness) or the Shard looses all life (Flood of Light). Most importantly, a Flooded Shard cannot be Rejoined to the Source. I'd be very, very surprised if the two phenomena were capable of happening in the same dimension at once. I would not be surprised if the Shard that is about to be Rejoined to the Source in the next Calamity is about to go through a Flood and everyone (Hydaelyn and the Ascians) want us to take care of that somehow...