Is it even possible for the Ascians to succeed?

[Alleo]

The obvious question which rises is basically what is in it for Cylva. Why would she help the Ascians by fomenting chaos and discord on the First in order to draw out the Light of the heroes, in order to accelerate the Light, especially when the plan requires that she die at the end? If she has a death wish, surely there are easier ways. If she was trying to "atone" for being too weak to save the Thirteenth, surely causing even more evil to the First is counter-productive.


Gamer Escape's Lorecast 9 has the interview:



I don't know how far you want to take "The Dark void that we know is void of aether" in terms of how completely void of aether the Void is supposed to be.

Then again, it's likely that it's simply the lore writers changing their minds, because, well:

Well it could be that she simply feels like a failure and thus (since she would have died if she was not rescued) she wanted to make up for her mistake by at least saving another shard that seemingly was in danger because of her failure too. That seems to be quite enough of a reason to me.

Also about that interview: Well it makes sense. He says that the Void itself is without any aether but there are lifeforms in it that are starved of aether thanks to that. With the Light he calls it empy and that is true since no life can live there. So there is nothing simply there. But with the void he say that it has no aether while he does not say that about the Light, so I do believe that was his way to hint that with a Flood of Light people simply cant survive thus the world would be empty. So in a way it is a opposite to the void: One without aether but still some kind of lifeforms, the other full with stopped aether but without a single lifeform.

So far the way things look is that in a Void of Darkness all elements that made up and supported life become so charged with activity that they lose all definition and merge together. Causing life to cease to exist. In a Void of Light all elements that made up and supported life lose so much activity that they become inert. Causing life to cease to exist.

That goes against Kojis own words that the Void is without any aether. In the end there should be nothing there which is the reason why voidsents come to our world to eat aether there. Sineaters need us simply because they might not be able to eat Aether that is there but stopped.

[YianKutku]

Also about that interview: Well it makes sense. He says that the Void itself is without any aether but there are lifeforms in it that are starved of aether thanks to that. With the Light he calls it empy and that is true since no life can live there. So there is nothing simply there. But with the void he say that it has no aether while he does not say that about the Light, so I do believe that was his way to hint that with a Flood of Light people simply cant survive thus the world would be empty. So in a way it is a opposite to the void: One without aether but still some kind of lifeforms, the other full with stopped aether but without a single lifeform.

That kind of helps explain one of the odder parts of the issue between Light and Darkness, in that in RL, "darkness" is basically "absence of (visible) light".

And so, speculating wildly, the Light on the First is aether, but stopped and aspected too far umbrally to the Light, which makes the skies all shiny and bright.

Whereas the result of the Flood of Darkness on the Thirteenth is lack of aether, so there's no corresponding "Darkness" covering the world. And so this explains why, in the World of Darkness raid in the Crystal Tower series, the skybox has visible stars.

[TankHunter678]

That goes against Kojis own words that the Void is without any aether. In the end there should be nothing there which is the reason why voidsents come to our world to eat aether there. Sineaters need us simply because they might not be able to eat Aether that is there but stopped.

Not really. Without life being naturally supported, because all of the aether that would support the elements of life having lost all distinction, whatever life that was trying to survive through it would have to adapt to what is there. Which is basically just pure aether. Leading over the course of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, depending on how fast or slow years are between the source and 13th, to the voidsent to devour all of the aether just to survive which is driving them to seek other sources.

But something to think about is voidsent still come to our world from the 13th when they should have all died out by now since it is void of aether aside from the few that had already managed to make it. Unless there IS something in there that is still generating aether, just not enough at the moment for the ever hungry voidsent. That something is likely Eden's opposite and a mechanism behind the original Flood of Darkness that hit the world. Get control of it, stabilize the aether it is pumping out to create a positive feedback loop for the world to start generating aether naturally again and the 13th can start the slow process of being repaired to where it can support life. Though the voidsent would be a constant problem till their population has been dealt with.

[Ardox]

Where all the aether of the 13th went?

It's stated several time that life is made of aether so, since there's lifeforms in the void it means there's a least their aether. Is there a single lifeform hoarding all of it? Have it leaked out somewhere else? if so where?