Are shards different?

[EdwinLi]

Considering what Emet said in his big Spoilers for future story events, we should probably expect the shards to be far different from what we seen in the First and Source.

Due to many possible differences in each shard we may find a Shard more technology focused, more pure magic focused, and maybe even one that is literally just modern day society where no magic exists like our world but with FF14 races.

A lot of possible outcomes that "may surprise us" as Emet said.