Sundering and specific character questions. [Spoilers]

[Theozilla]

If the Sundering is localised then I don't think there is a "universe of the First". There is a single wider universe but one small patch of it is containing multiple simultaneous realities, each one thinner than the normal density of reality.

The best way I can think of picturing it is to imagine the universe as a stack of paper sheets, mostly glued together but there's one patch that has come unglued so the sheets aren't attached to each other.

Most of the block has a single surface and thick layer underneath, but this section has many thin layers with separate surfaces. It's not clear whether you could access any of the additional surfaces from the surrounding universe or only the uppermost layer (the Source), which looks no different to the surrounding "whole" space.

This analogy represents the universe as 2D while the effect of the Sundering creates a more 3D structure, so to translate that to the real 3D universe then Hydaelyn is some kind of 4D hypersphere thing with only one section of it (the Source) visible from and existing in the outside universe. (I'm not going to pretend I fully grasp how 4D works but I think "seeing a 3D cross-section in 3D space" is the end result, like a sphere intersecting a 2D plane would appear as a circle.)

So yeah, I think it's likely that you can only access the Source from outside the planet, but once you're on the planet it's possible to mess with dimensions and access a different layer of the split world.


...but then, why would Omega have the ability to traverse it if it's a localised phenomenon unknown to Omega's creators?

So in your proposed model, how would things such as meteorites and asteroids work with the Source and Shards then? Would that mean the shards never have had any meteorites hit their planets then?

And if anyone on the shards were to develop hypothetical means of space travel, how would they be able to interact with things in outer-space?

https://gamerescape.com/2018/12/01/f...with-koji-fox/
He seems a little vague about it at first and says that he has to check with Oda, but this is what we have now. Funny enough, it came out right after this thread originally died.

To add onto what Vyrerus said, he does mention the fact the Dragonstar is very, very far away from all this.

Yeah I actually found that interview earlier and posted it lasted night.

And while he said the split/sundering "is focused mainly on Hydaelyn, the planet, being split." He did leave the subject of whether/how other planets in the cosmos were or were not affected by the Sundering, as something that needed further confirmation. And since ShadowBringers and its patches didn't really touch on other planets, I feel like like the official status of how the sundering/split affecting other planets/greater universe, is still officially unconfirmed/defined.