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[Alleo]

To the people who are so worried about something happening to the source: Forge Ahead. Because right now there's a whole lot of nothing going on except for whatever Golbez is twirling his moustache over, and a competent writer would let that lead into either demon invasion or rejoinings.

Funny that you believe that any kind of "war" story or threat of another rejoining would lead to us losing. Right now the WoL has won any of these conflicts and stopped the rejoning of the First. What makes you believe that a another rejoining would happen? And why would it need to happen? The main Ascians are dead, none of the remaining ones should be powerful enough to plan something that basically makes a shard ready for a rejoining. Remember both the source and shard needs to be prepared for that...

We had a ongoing war since ARR...and here you still want a war as if that is not going to be boring after such a long time.

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About our power:

The WoL is the type of person that helps no matter what. So we will always help the weaker people. And for a main villain: Well we are still human, get some poison out, use some new world technic that temporarily knocks us out because we had no idea what it is (but will overcome later), overwhelm us in numbers, threaten someone we love or simply let the enemy be a person in power that we cant attack because it would lead to political conflicts. Things that FF14 has already used over the time.

If we ever go to another shard, they could easily explain that the density of aether is different and thus we need time to get used to that.

I just dont see a need to depower us permanently. Even against the Endsinger we had help and without the Scions and their prayers we would have died. We are not a unstoppable god.

[Cleretic]

What makes you believe that a rejoining would happen? And why would it need to happen? The main Ascians are dead, none of the remaining ones should be powerful enough to stake something that bascially makes a shard ready for a rejoining. Remember both the source and shard needs to be prep for that...

Something I've noticed from multiple people trying to predict future events, especially on the official forums but also elsewhere, is that there's a bunch of people who assert that a Rejoining must be in the future without any real care for how astronomically implausible that is. In fact, almost acting like it's an inevitability; that there must be a Rejoining in the future, it's just a matter of figuring out how. I think there's two general approaches that lead there:

A: People deciding that Rejoinings are somehow a good thing, or can be done peacefully and positively, rather than 'oh yeah that's unambiguously a bad thing for literally every living soul on all involved planets that only the Ascians ever had anything to gain from'. This I think is why the OF has this more often than elsewhere, because there's an atypically large pro-Zodiark/Convocation/Ascian segment of the population here; they want to see another Rejoining in part because either they want to see a 'good Rejoining' (which is akin to saying 'a good earthquake'), or they think all Rejoinings are somehow good Rejoinings.

And B: Just a general lack of originality; they go for a Rejoining as an apparently inevitable future event not because Rejoinings actually are likely or inevitable, but because it's the only thing they can think of. The only threat or game-changer they can imagine is a Rejoining because they just can't imagine the game having stakes or major players different than what they're already familiar with.