Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
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".