What would happen if the Source were destroyed in the same way as a shard?

[DamianFatale]

Hear me out. What if the source were destroyed instead of a shard? Where would its energy have to go? I'm genuinely curious.

I'm not here for answers that say it would never happen. This is more of a what if kind of thing, than a realistic type of thing that would happen in the narrative of the game. My curiosity is overthinking, and it needs to be sated.

Here are my theories:

- The Moon and the Source world are completely wiped out. Zodiark's energy, and Hydaelyn's energy, along with all the souls of the source get evenly redistributed to all of the worlds. Everything is ALMOST restored to the way that it used to be before the split of the world, but every world that is left is a weaker version of the original world, in the exact image that it is currently in now. Basically everyone gets some of that power, and they are all "sources" if that makes any sense.

- Everything is completely wiped out. There is nothing left for anyone, because the massive influx of energy is way too unstable for anything to live or form off of. MAYBE the ashes of some of the planets reform over time IF laws of planet formation are somehow in this universe.

I have no idea how physics would work in Final Fantasy XIV. Is aether on every planet? Or is it unique to Hydaelyn? Are there Hydaelyn and Zodiark like beings scattered out there in the universe? Midgarsormr is technically an alien if you really think about it. Maybe powerful ascian like beings exist out there in the universe as well?

- One of the left over surviving shards becomes a new source of balance between all the others. Hydaelyn and Zodiark are still gone however.

- Perhaps some of the shards would be restored? With the exception of the loss of the source. They would however take a long time to repopulate and become new again if this were to somehow work.

- The other shards survive, but the "sound" returns to all of them in the absence of Zodiark and Hydaelyn. There are new ends of days that gradually happen in each shards timelines.

Honestly.. I have no idea, and I'm as puzzled as the rest of you. :P A timeline where the source is completely obliterated just sounds like a lot of fun to me.