Quote Originally Posted by Cybylt View Post
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."
Aether does strange things when it blows up in such violent fashion...
It was mentioned in the story that there isn't a refueling station in Rabanastre anymore for the ships. If the Garleans are going to demolish Ala Mihgo with ease as Zelidibus suggests, its going to be by getting airships to make the trip.
It seems strange to me that the House would have that particular rumor from the Dotharl about it, as well as the stated fact that by turning on its aether output will have large environmental effects. Aether does weird things at times, if the Dotharl's rumor and Y'shtola's observation have weight, perhaps an explosion of that same energy across the land would have results akin to the flood.