Final Fantasy 14's Thirteenth Shard Has a Unique Relationship with the Source
Final Fantasy 14's latest patch has sent players to the Thirteenth Shard, the home of Voidsent, also known as the World of Darkness. It is looking like the Thirteenth may be a consistent setting for a while in Final Fantasy 14, as players have connected to a Thirteenth local named Zero and has also made a number of Voidsent enemies. Despite visiting the world for the first time, the Thirteenth has had a long history inFinal Fantasy 14.
The Thirteenth, like all other shards, is a piece of the original world of the Etheirysthat was created when Venat became Hydaelyn and Shattered the world and people into the Source and thirteen fragments. The Thirteenth was visited by the Ascians, who wished to do a Rejoining to help to reawaken Zodiark. They did this with the element of darkness, and while the world fell to the mercy of Voidsent and darkness, the Ascians actually failed in their goal.
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How Ascians rejoined pieces of Zodiark was to basically destroy shards with aspected aether and then create a Calamity on the Source that also uses that kind of aspected aether. They succeded in this with various shards such as the Second, which created the third Calamity on the Source (which was done with fire-aspected aether and made Thanalan a desert). Another example is the Third shard, which used earth aether and thus a Calamity on the Source that was the earthqake that destroyed the Allagan Empire.
This was the plan for dark-aspected aether on the Thirteenth. However, this attempt happened before Ascians learned that they had to make Calamities happen on the Source for a true Rejoining to occur. So when they flooded the Thirteenth with darkness but did not make a Calamity happen on
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