What lore do you ignore?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Seeing as this has turned into the debate space for the Sundering again, I have to note that the EE3 page on alphabets (page 52) and renewed discussion of it in light of the "hypothetical" proto-alphabet popping up in Dawntrail, if it is accurate that both worlds' writing systems came from a common ancestor then that seems to be a strong point in favour of the Sundering not wiping out all knowledge even if precise memories were lost, and thus leans more towards "same people with weakened aether" over "reverted to primordial slime".

If they wish me to understand the Sundering as a nerf and not annihilation, then this shouldn't exist: https://youtu.be/YC0U_aTv0EI?si=RtpFmgcB6u09PZwi&t=244

What Emet-Selch saw was malformed creatures incapable of speech when he comes from a species that can understand any language due to knowing the intent of your soul. Their intelligence was reduced 13/14ths. A person with an IQ of 100 would have an IQ of 7. A chimp has an IQ of 20-25. What they were reduced to was something he could no longer recognize as a person.

ETA: Based on my understanding of the Sundering, the Ascians would have found 14 copies of their world. Which meant that the cities and books would all still be there. And beings that looked like the people they knew would also be there. But those beings wouldn't have the comprehension necessary to maintain the cities and would die of old age before the Ascians could even come up with a plan. "They die and die and die." So I wouldn't be surprised if the different writing systems all evolved from a single source as the books would just be sitting there...but without anyone knowing what a book was or how to read...

The more I think of it, the more horrified I am. And in this case, my horror isn't for the people she did this to, but for those she left to witness it. To labor for thousands of years, going crazy, as they attempted to restore their people. And she put them in this position knowing they'd never succeed...

ETA2: And now that this has started me thinking about it even more. Do you know what we call a world created by a god to make their inhabitants suffer? We call that hell. Sure in this case their hell is on par with our normal world, but it still holds true. We view heavens as worlds with no or less suffering and hells as worlds with more suffering. Which means not only did she set them up to go crazy watching their people die off and be replaced. They are now being recycled to endure the hell of her design over and over. A fate she got to opt out of.

But hey, she didn't destroy the books. Sure the people were too devolved to use the books for anything but toilet paper for a millennia, but she didn't destroy them...