Quote Originally Posted by crawlerette View Post
so if I'm understanding correctly, Light on the First is causing aether to be dulled or stalled. Would that mean that Dark on the shard that died (the 5th iirc) that would've been overactive aether, overcharged?

WHOO this calamity stuff makes my head hurt
It was the 13th Shard that fell to the Flood of Darkness and became the Void/World of Darkness, not the 5th (if I remember rightly the 5th was instead one of the Shards that ended up being successfully Rejoined to the Source).