Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Why the Ascians never scooped up the Key is a big question mark
Do they need it per se ? I always thought they could just... travel between shards with no worries?

Beside, there is still something I can't wrap my head around regarding the key, and maybe the lovely lore nerds can help me here. If the key is just a way to travel between shards and nothing else, and it is made by the ancients, then it must have been made after Venat's decision to split the world into shards, but before it happened. How much time is there in that? And it would be one of Venat's followers, but not Azem as they were not part of this group ? Yet the key seems to react to Azem's stone ? So Azem would have had to know about Venat's plan, and decided to creathe the key before the Sundering ? And there's still the... why would Azem do that ? Why would they think ahead of a way to travel between shards for the future shards of their soul?

That's kind of why I think the key is able to open gateway between shards, but there has to be a main use beyond that. And I also believe that while it is Ancient, it was not made specifically by Azem, but rather that it recognized a strong presence of an Ancient soul in the WoL, which allowed the WoL to use it.

(And is it possibly Halmarut who told Zoral Ja to use the key to go to the Ninth ?)