Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
As far as we know Amaurotine was just one big city and that creation magicks existed beyond its border. We also have NPCs that talk about being accepted to live there (and one saying that they hopefully dont regret it) so there has to be other ancient ones all around the world. And even if someone from Amaurotine started it, it could have been someone that simply traveled somewhere else.

It could even be that one or a few ancient people started to experiment on some dark stuff far away from the controlling eyes of Amaurotine. They may have even used the lifestream itself in these experiments, creating something absolutely horrible. And since it was selfmade, it was able to manipulate their creation magicks. Maybe the creators were able to lock it up but it was too powerful and still influenced everything.

Maybe Azem has even fought it and then came to the realization that it would be much too powerful, so they chained it and afterwards let it be weakened through the sundering?
The issue with the Ancients or a secret cabal of them being the ones behind the Sound is that the Sound had an impact that went beyond what a small group of them if could achieve. It did after all break the very laws of existence and threw creation magics worldwide into chaos. It took half of the surviving Ancients, including one of the Convocation with the rests’ aid, to undue and halt the Sound. I think it’s reasonable to assume it’s power is at least equal to that, which, unless there’s another hidden extremely powerful civilization lurking about, would make it very unlikely for the Ancients to not see coming. This would contradict what we’ve heard, as the Sound is after all, a complete mystery even to them.

On Azem or the Sundering being what defeated it, unless Endwalker introduces some twists on that, Shadowbringers is pretty clear that it was Zodiark who stopped the Sound and ended the Final Days.