Thread: 8.0 speculation

Originally Posted by Mansion

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?

So this is actually the main reason I was against the read that the key was an Ancient creation: there is no good reason for the Ancients to have made something capable of traveling across the shards. They could never have used this, wouldn't have had logical or emotional use for it, and wouldn't even know how to make the damn thing in the first place. Ironically, given the name, they don't really have the ethos to make this decision; the key just isn't something the Ancients would have made according to any information we have on them, so it kinda feels unsatisfying and out of nowhere to me that they did.

And to your Halmarut thought: I don't think Zoraal Ja would've been part of her decisions, for simple reason that I don't think he's that subtle or all that motivated by the Golden City itself. Now, Sereel Ja I could buy, but he's definitely gone off the reservation by the time of the alliance raids, and is completely outside the Winterers' organization now, if he was ever inside them.