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Yeah I gotta admit it's one of those ideas where you say it thinking it'd be stupid but then you go 'wait a second maybe this got legs'.
It relitigates prior plots to be sure, "Save what once was or keep moving forward", the shadowbringers relativity of perspective (They'd do what Emet did in his shoes). But I think it's got potential, whether you make it existing shards (Trying to ward off a future threat), or prior sacrificed shards. The real juicy shit would be to make it unclear IF it would actually cause 'anti calamities' (IE a sudden drought of fire or water or lightning aether) or not. So you have a lot of sourcers going
>Why the fuck should we risk our existence for these fuckers?
If they're sacrificed shards then you can't tell em to fuck off they got nowhere to go, you can't settle them there's too many of them in the source. Thematically it's all very obviously refugee crisis and or Israel/Palestine although the latter is very obviously corvos.
Actually, that'd be the way to consider what future plot beats might be. The past two expansions have had some very contemporary real life themes/vibes going on loosely inspiring elements - loneliness with covid for endwalker, AI-shit for dawntrail. So what the gestalt is in Japanese consciousness being- I guess that means 8.0 will be all about children and having families.
