Quote Originally Posted by Eorzean_username View Post
And this is just awful. I think it's literally worse than saying nothing at all.

"My presence would be extraneous" ?? Outside the literal semantic, what does that even actually mean ?
It means what it means. If you actually think over the details instead of the first-glance "he's from the Thirteenth so he should be involved", he really wouldn't be all that helpful to us. He was a kid who lived in the now-effectively-nonexistent world that was transformed into the void and then rescued from the ruins by Elidibus. It doesn't sound like he has a lot of experience with its current state. Cylva is likely in a similar position.

Additionally, the in-universe logistics of getting either of them to help are fairly high effort for what may be very little practical assistance. Unukalhai is one of the two specific people needed to cast the gate-spell from the First to Thirteenth, so it's not really an option for him to journey into it. Cylva could go, but given that the Thirteenth is as big as the Source and portals take you to the equivalent locations in the destination shard, she's in Mor Dhona while the other portals are in Thavnair and on the moon.