Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
One thing that bothers me is that while partially destroyed shards make for more convenient short story arcs (like Hiroi's grand attempt at an Ultima Thule style finale), you permanently discard the storytelling potential that an intact shard might offer (both in terms of landmass and in terms of accessing inaccessible areas through dimensional travel between two intact shards.) I hope they leave at least a couple fully intact to build future storylines off of.
Is that shard done, though? Alexandria seemed to have no means out of the dome until Vanguard was built. It also seems like the shard is no longer so aspected to lightning, since we have that nice sun rise at the end. While Lindblum's weapon might have ravaged the continent, some other people might have survived, and other continents were probably relatively safer, just like Bahamut affected mostly Eorzea, other continents left unscathed.