Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
Um...It's possible!

So about the Flood of Light...I have a theory.


What if its from the alliance using the House of the Crooked Coin?

The House of the Crooked Coin already has a belief among the Dotharl that if you die there, you do not reincarnate. A flood of light is described as Fate where the soul experiences neither life nor death. And the alliance is planning to make The House a battery for its air defense shield, one similar to Azis Lla.

Now, the Garleans, are currently one order away from counterattacking Ala Mihgo...and their ships need to take the route through the Burn... so assuming Varis can't politically hold things down(Quite possibly from someone's assassination attempt...)
The Garlean troops see this shield in the Burn, go "Hey, didn't Cid make a thingamajig to break through this sort of thing?" They stick that on their Big Ships, and have a go at forcing through the shield. Now that cranks up the juice at the House of the Crooked Coin...Which, either through the assault to break through or the tech connecting it to the shield failing...goes out of control with the energy demand and unleashes its power unhampered...All that un-reincarnating power...

And there is your flood of light...
Some problems there I think.
The Burn is between Garlemald and Othard, not Ala Mhigo.
Cid didn't make that thing, the Sharlayans did, we dug it out of the Gubal Library.
A flood of light, to our knowledge from 3.4, isn't just some big aether explosion.

Some supposition but I think the outcome of the Crooked Coin being overloaded is more like to be like the end of Allagan Empire. It's basically an aetherial electrical grid substation and the vast majority of them were overloaded when Dalamud was hooked up to the network, blew up, and caused the "Calamity of Earth."