Quote Originally Posted by MrThinker View Post
Is the collapse of civilization a necessary component of a Calamity though? I always thought it was just great chaotic catastrophic aetherical disturbance causing massive environmental change and the collapse of civilization is just a side effect of those things.
Ehh.

I'd actually say rejoinings and calamities have slightly different definitions. What you just described would be a rejoining, and Bahamut definitely counted as that. But everyone who's not an Ascian has no idea what a rejoining is. They don't know about the atherial disturbance stuff. To them, the Calamities were disasters that destroyed civilizations. And by that standard, it is pretty weird that Eorzea's people count Bahamut as one when he didn't cause anywhere near the devastation of previous Calamities (granted he only didn't because Louisoix stopped him, but that's just it: Louisoux stopped him).