Eorzea has much Light? How?

[Daralii]

But the WoL has turned Doma and Ala Mhigo into warzones. Before the WoL arrived, it was a place of brutal order and instead turned it into a hotspot of conflict. While WoL has imposed order on Ishgard, the next expansion was about removing order from far off lands. And the Ascians are actively fueling conflict along with the WoL so I don't really see the problem the WoL is causing in terms of "balance".

Bringing order to Ishgard also caused the death of two Ascians, one being one of the Source's Overlords. That alone is a huge blow to the balance.

[Bright-Flower]

I wonder if the idea is that the WOL would kill Elidibus who is in Zenos' body on the battlefield and that would be the final push toward a flood.

[Alleo]

I wonder if the idea is that the WOL would kill Elidibus who is in Zenos' body on the battlefield and that would be the final push toward a flood.

Can we even kill him just like that? I mean each important Ascian needed a big source of Light/aether to destroy them and seeing how most of the Scions are out and seeing how we are already in the middle of the fight, I cant believe that we somehow get a weapon strong enough to destroy the Ascian himself. (Also would kinda be anti climatic imo for such an important enemy)

Maybe we do cut down Zenos and people know finally spread the news that he is death, thus stopping the war for a time? Or maybe it is something that Solus does thus its not really our fault.

[Daralii]

Can we even kill him just like that? I mean each important Ascian needed a big source of Light/aether to destroy them and seeing how most of the Scions are out and seeing how we are already in the middle of the fight, I cant believe that we somehow get a weapon strong enough to destroy the Ascian himself. (Also would kinda be anti climatic imo for such an important enemy)

Maybe we do cut down Zenos and people know finally spread the news that he is death, thus stopping the war for a time? Or maybe it is something that Solus does thus its not really our fault.

Black Rose is the wild card. Solus wanting to eliminate the sole dissenting voice among the Paragons and establish himself as the Source's sole Overlord seems in character from what we've seen so far. If the gas can be influenced by the excess Light, that means it can somehow interact with aether... which is all the Ascians are.

[Skeith9]

So I gather that the problem of the Eorzea now is there's too much Light. The Warrior of Light has been too heroic and the world faces destruction from imbalance.

However, the actions of the Warrior of Light have not been able to stop a World War from waging. Brutal repression, slavery, massive loss of life, endless war and attempted genocide from Warriors of Darkness from another world. This is the world with too much Light? Is the moral of the story that war and genocide are good things that bring the world into balance?

I shudder to think what plunging this into darkness would entail. The Warriors of Darkness tried to wipe out an entire world, mass genocide. How can the story follow in their footsteps? How can we darken the world when nearly everyone dying happened in the "world with too much light"? Am I missing something?

I think we're being pulled through time because not only will we soon put an end to all that, we'll basically make the world a bunch of borg like goody-tooshoe pacifists. I.e to much light. If not and this is too much light, I shudder to think what too much darkness would be like.

That being said, Eorzea having too much light stems from us winning constantly against the darkness representatives.

It really really does not feel like we have won enough for that too happen. It feels like we are still losing to the darkness because of the ascians and garlemald.

[ChaoticCrimson]

I was led to believe the current state of the Source's aether would make Black Rose more conductive and therefore effective, rather than if it were still normal where the gas would possibly be diluted by the aether by some degree otherwise. I'm not sure that the two were supposed to really "interact", per se. Nevertheless, it's still a big threat in either case. It's also certainly possible that Solus could use it to usurp Zeno-bus, but to date we can't say for sure what his loyalties are to him. While he has attested to the belief that Elidibus has made good judgements toward their cause, he also seemed almost bitter at the prospect of being dragged back to clean up after Lahabrea's misadventures, and he also seemed to regret that his work with Garlemald hasn't lived nearly enough up to the Allagan Empire's legacy. Does this mean he wants to keep building things up and become an emperor again, and maybe extend his rule across all of Hydaelyn? Perhaps, but we cannot say for certain at present. The fact of the matter is that Solus is still shrouded in a lot of mystery, despite what we've learned of him these last couple patches. The finale of the 4.5 story quests may elucidate further into his nature, but until then we still have little to speculate with where he's concerned.

Where the balance between light and darkness is concerned, it's also hard to say what's happening there despite having a little more knowledge about the subject. So far, although noticeable to those versed in such things, for the most part the apparent thinning of aether has been pretty subtle to others. It's a concern, certainly, but it's effects haven't become severe... Yet, that is. While the Ascians had done fairly well at sowing chaos, the WoL has also managed to slay many primals, including Bahamut in the context of those raids, which had a huge effect on the Source's aether. There's also the fact that a lot of the strife caused by the Dragonsong War is gradually diminishing due to our influence, and Ascians have now started to fall for good over time since the Seventh Astral Era began. Add to that Doma's liberation and restoration and, to a lesser degree, Ala Mhigo's as well, and the cumulative effects of all these events would certainly influence the balance. Still, I doubt these events alone could tip the scales so radically as to cause a Flood of Light. No, I suspect there's far more to it. Were Elidibus to be destroyed indefinitely, that could very well be the push that could start a Flood. And how does it all tie in with Black Rose and the final Calamity, exactly? That also could be any number of things. But I'm almost positive that the catalyst that sets things over the brink will be the confrontation with Elidibus when the next bit of story comes out.

[NessaWyvern]

Maybe the aether inside our characters will cause the flood of light if we are not careful. Our characters are very powerful compared to the general public, and we have killed many primals and bathed in their aether in doing so. Maybe we are converting that aether into light because of our crystals of light, perhaps we have to start collecting dark crystals? We know ascians have them, so we might even start killing ascians for the crystals?

I am just grabbing at straws here though.
It might explain why the WoDs had to come to our world and kill primals, maybe they had crystals of darkness to convert their primal aether into darkness to take back to their world?

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I think it's more that Hydaelyn's becoming too powerful rather than "the present state of the world is too full of light". Because there's still all sorts of issues in Ul'dah, Gridania, and Limsa that haven't been addressed.

[Edax]

Add to that Doma's liberation and restoration and, to a lesser degree, Ala Mhigo's as well, and the cumulative effects of all these events would certainly influence the balance. Still, I doubt these events alone could tip the scales so radically as to cause a Flood of Light. No, I suspect there's far more to it. Were Elidibus to be destroyed indefinitely, that could very well be the push that could start a Flood. And how does it all tie in with Black Rose and the final Calamity, exactly? That also could be any number of things. But I'm almost positive that the catalyst that sets things over the brink will be the confrontation with Elidibus when the next bit of story comes out.

But that's just it, the Ascians goal is chaos is it not? Before the WoL arrived, Doma and Ala Mhigo were nations in order. Repressed and beaten, but they obeyed. The WoL changed that, plunged Doma into war, even greatly expanding the conflict to include the tribes of the Steppe and The Conderdatacy. The WoL has turned order into chaos, and now Ala Mhigo is now on the frontline of two massive armies. If anything, the WoL has been serving Zodiark's goals of chaos and tipping the balance in the opposite direction since ending the Dragonsong War. The Ascians may control the Empire, but what the Empire wants is order. The recent gassing attempts against the Imperial dissidents should be harming Zodiark's goal of chaos, right? The WoL opposing the Empire is not creating peace, even if it's for the greater good.

[SannaR]

Yet Solus not appointing an heir created the chaos that he wanted to happen after his death. There was also order at least in Doma before the Empire came. Also lets not forget that there was a resistance happening before the WoL was even involved.