Where's the aether? (Spoilers)

[kaynide]

This confuses me, though. If we, 7- or 8-times-rejoined, were faded specters to the complete ancients, why were the 0-times-rejoined denizens of the First and Thirteenth exactly the same as us?.

I forget the specifics in game, but my understanding is the sundering caused certain races to develop across all shards and the source itself. So that’s why we all look the same.

If you are talking power or strength or literal levels or why some random dude on the 1st can put up a reasonable fight against you, it’s because it’s a video game. (As unsatisfying as that is)

If the events in game were to be treated as “real”, we can see instances where our heroes do extraordinary things, especially with regards to taking down the Lightwardens- something probably suicidal to the average joe on the source. I don’t know if that’s necessarily because of having more aether or being lucky or just being a highly experienced adventurer, so fair point.