Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
Not to mention that there's no way she could know back when she started to make those plans that some fools would unshackle Zodiark early. The only way she could reasonably consider he would be free and the aether shield fell is if all the Rejoinings had happened, so the shards would no longer exist. I don't think she disregarded the shards as much as she didn't think they would be there anymore to worry about if her ultimate backup plan had to come into play.
But she knew what happened to Zodiark since the WoL told her in elpis. She clearly realized that in order for the WoL to reach her, 7 rejoining must happen. Same with the 8UC timeline. The WoL traveled back in time using modified crystal tower, which only exists in the current timeline. This means She "let" the calamity in another timeline to happen, and for the First to nearly be flooded with light in our timeline, as this would ensure us to reach her in Elpis. Basically she made 13 reflections with 7 of them to be sacrificed in mind.