Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
But does that make it against the Circle of Knowing's principles? No. Summoning is a means to an end and they're perfectly okay with it. The entire point of Living on a Prayer and the End of an Era cinematic was to summon twelve at once.
If I remember correctly, they do mention that summoning the twelve at once will hurt the planet as well, and that for this reason we would not be able to summon them at full power. I think the main goal here was, though the planet's aether flow would be disrupted, at least we would still have a planet with life on it.

What I'm most curious about is which god Urianger is the Archon for, and why he wasn't in the final cutscene. What does he DO when he disappears from our view? Surely spreading unease/distraction for the empire is not an important task when they're trying to destroy us directly...