Thread: 8.0 and World

Originally Posted by Thighland

It's an interesting idea to see what would happen if we become fully rejoined.
But what if the other Azem-shards don't want to be rejoined with us? They are their own people afterall, with their own lives. They'd need a good reason to give up on their own souls, like Ardbert.
Not to mention that we ourselves don't really have a reason to be rejoined.

Originally Posted by Cleretic

Why? Why 'should' that happen? Who would want that, to what end would that be?

The Ascians were the only people who asserted that this was in any way an ideal endgame, and we killed them because of it, because to do so would be murder, to bring back a world that's long dead. Even if we take it as a given that this is what would happen (which is already wrong, the Ancients are essentially a different evolutionary state for different conditions rather than some lost Perfect Form), what does this serve other than to prove right a bunch of dead villains who were asserting it as a form of dehumanization, and to bring back a relic of a world that died to its own sword?

Please, explain to me why I should want this, and why this should be the 'primary goal' of any future journey.

Originally Posted by mallleable

That sounds terrifying if I have to be honest. That would rob any character who has an Azem soul shard of their autonomy, and turn us in a soul devouring, dimension hopping monster. However, it would be interesting if one of our shards is a villain, and has plans to do just that.

And that is the point, explore the subject matter, where maybe there is a person who doesn't want to be rejoined to have their autonomy taken. That is a goldmine for storytelling. Not engaging with that content, by contrast, is just leaving a plot thread dangling for no other reason and could be considered wasted potential in writing. After all, if goes unexplored, then why was it even brought up in the storyline? Sure it tells us we are an incomplete version of Azem, but if we do nothing with that storyline, then I could snip it out of the story and no harm comes to the story. See what I mean?