Thread: Predictions for 5.3?

The rejoining will never happen because all our quests/dailies are on the first.

Originally Posted by LalafellDown

The rejoining will never happen because all our quests/dailies are on the first.

Depends....

Some stories with similar plots and issues tend to have the "rejoining" end up with the two world combining to a point the other world becomes a new Continent in the world thus the "rejoining" still happened but the world is now bigger due to a additional Continent.

Originally Posted by EdwinLi

Depends....

Some stories with similar plots and issues tend to have the "rejoining" end up with the two world combining to a point the other world becomes a new Continent in the world thus the "rejoining" still happened but the world is now bigger due to a additional Continent.

It doesn't matter how "some stories with similar plots" have done it because that is not how the Sundering works.

The planet split into identical copies. We know they overlay. They're not broken pieces to be reassembled like a puzzle.

And you don't just conveniently drop an entire new continent into another world without a catastrophic impact on global systems like weather, let alone whatever was pushed aside to accommodate it.

It would also entirely undermine the work we're doing in Eden to restore the Empty.

It's not happening.

And if it is happening despite all that, I will be cross.

Originally Posted by Iscah

It doesn't matter how "some stories with similar plots" have done it because that is not how the Sundering works.

The planet split into identical copies. We know they overlay. They're not broken pieces to be reassembled like a puzzle.

And you don't just conveniently drop an entire new continent into another world without a catastrophic impact on global systems like weather, let alone whatever was pushed aside to accommodate it.

It would also entirely undermine the work we're doing in Eden to restore the Empty.

It's not happening.

And if it is happening despite all that, I will be cross.

It will greatly depend on how it happens.

The combining of two worlds differs based on the plot's choice of effect.

One outcome can have the entire memories and world's history altered to accomondate the changed world.

Another can result in the memories being preserved but the world itself altered.

As for the empty, there are ways around it without removing the Eden story such as only the new continent is mostly the Empty thus the world's history adjust itself from restoring a planet size Empty to a Continent size Empty.

However, these are just theories thus we will have to see where the stories goes and if there is a safe way to cause a rejoining without negative effects since the method of rejoining by Ascians is only done because it is considered the fastest method which means there is most likely a safe method but it is considered either much slower or that Zodiark is blinding them from it because it may not "benefit" him in anyways.

Originally Posted by Iscah

It doesn't matter how "some stories with similar plots" have done it because that is not how the Sundering works.

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It's not happening.

And if it is happening despite all that, I will be cross.

I share the opinion that, because of gameplay, the Sundering can't happen. They can't cut off the First, and they can't make a past dimension bubble, that's be ridiculous in FFXIV that is so rigid with its timeline and time-bubble.

However, given how the loss of the Thirteenth is both inconsequential and not preferable for the wake of Zodiark... I've started wondering if Elidibus is not trying to come up with a big plan to somehow overpass the Sundering as we understand it get to his goal. Perhaps taking down Hydealyn herself... I don't know, but something that would not involve Calamities and rejoining the Shards.
Becaue the other way around is not satisfactory; if we kill Elidibus and all Ascians, Zodiark is still there somehow. Sealed away, but here. And we know how it never goes well in most stories to have the bigbadboi just "locked away".