Thread: The Reasoning behind The Sundering? (*6.0 Endwalker Spoilers*)

Originally Posted by EaraGrace

Little c calamities and big C ones are impossible for us to distinguish. That assertion and the 100% failure rate are great examples of circular reasoning. Any effort that stopped a calamity would not be remembered as such since it was stopped and the Ascians machinations would not manifest, while any effort that failed would be remembered due to the worldwide impact and thus would be clearly Ascian caused.

Fair point, we have no idea how many, if any, she managed to stop. It might be that the Ascians only tried 8 times total, and she failed completely, letting 7 rejoinings happen and 1 shard be ruined entirely.

It might be that the Ascians had a go roughly every 1000 years and she managed to prevent 4 rejoinings.

Maybe they were even more keen than that, having a crack at it every 500 years and therefore she stopped them 16 times.

I guess we'll likely never know, we weren't there and everyone we might have asked about it is a bit dead now.

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I suppose we could try and Azem magic Venat out of the lifestream to ask her, but I suspect that the incantation requires at least a smidge of dynamis, and that 'idle curiosity' isn't a strong enough emotion to trigger the effect.