Quote Originally Posted by Voidmage View Post

I think in the end it's a bit too early to speculate too much.
YoshiP said before 7.4 that we would get more information for 8.0 with 7.5.
We only know that:
The Winterers will probably play a part,
At least 7.5 (and probably 8.0 to some extent) will involve the WoL (Digest),
That we have a Key for inter dimensional travel,
Some kind of calamity without the will of the star is taking place (7.4 end).

We don't even know if the Withering is only a Shard thing or if it also affects the source in some way.
Three Shards we have seen and all of them were in some kind of almost rejoining. I honestly wonder if all Shards are actually at the brink of collapse because of Ascian parallel working.
That is fair, but i made this post so that we can exchanged ideas and theory we have for 8.0.