Quote Originally Posted by Eisi View Post
Additionally, I think what you're saying is not true. I might have checked out too much to care, but I'm pretty sure nobody in the story mentioned anything about the world crumbling if we don't continue praying to the Twelve or any such nonsense. The star also isn't continuously artificially kept asunder, conversely it would require effort against the new natural equilibrium after the Sundering to rejoin the reflections.
The purpose of the Twelve, and then later the machine they left behind, is to stablise the planet. Take that away, and whatever they are trying to stablise against comes to pass. Who knows what that is, but it prolly isn't good if there had to be measures in place to manage it.