Is it even possible for the Ascians to succeed?

[MrThinker]

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That's the closest I can find, although I admit that it's phrased in implicit terms rather than explicit. If the intent of that dialogue was to say that a near-Flood of Light on the First would help "balance out" the Flood of Darkness on the Thirteenth, it kind of skips over the steps of how.

So I'm not actually sure if we're intended to read that dialogue in that way. Or if, as is the usual Ascian methodology, they heavily hint and imply but don't actually say it, because they're lying by omissions and implications, and content to let their patsies believe something erroneous in order to further their own schemes.

The way I read it was that

The Ascians convinced Cylva that instead a Flood of Light was inevitable thanks to there being a Flood of Darkness, and the only way she could save the First and make up for her failure to save the 13th was to rejoin the First