Emet-selch and the flood

[Iscah]

Though it does have me wonder why he is suddenly creating myriad Warriors of Light, I'm guessing the intent is to eventually pit them against the Warriors of Darkness (us) and have history repeat itself, but that still seems like it'll take too long for that to happen.

A lot of it seems to be about creating chaos, ultimately - the world is just starting to stabilise and rebuild, and Elidibus is pulling the rug out from beneath them by giving people "illusions of grandeur" that they've been chosen to drop everything and help the world by doing grand things... when actually they were already doing important work even though it wasn't exciting. Now everyone is off playing heroes on their own best guess of what to do instead of working with each other to get stuff done together.

Maybe Elidibus has deeper motives as well, but even on the surface it's looking rather sinister.

[yajnaji]

So y'all telling me that the Flood was an accident... then how were the Ascians planning to make the rejoining from the First before it happened?

I'm more confused now than before, but thank you for all the replies.

[Iscah]

So y'all telling me that the Flood was an accident... then how were the Ascians planning to make the rejoining from the First before it happened?

I'm more confused now than before, but thank you for all the replies.

Basically, the conditions for a Rejoining are that the shard's aether is heavily unbalanced and a corresponding disaster on the Source opens the aetherial floodgates. But if the shard is *too* unbalanced, it floods.

So the Ascians' job is to ideally keep the shard 99% of the way to a flood state without letting it reach 100%, which is what happened when Ardbert didn't act as they anticipated.