... Okay so like. thinking about it. the whole fandom has taken it at Emet's word that the rejoining only empowers the source when a shard is consumed. But that doesn't actually make sense with the way aether flows between them.
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Water eventually finds its own level. The Source is flooded at first - the calamity and the umbral period following - but it should eventually even out. And, presumably, flow out from the source to the other remaining shards.
So the "plot hole" where Krile etc have souls that are indistinguishable from those of the source despite being born on shards - what if it's not? We've been working off assumptions from a man pathologically incapable of being a reliable narrator this entire time.
We didn't get back an extra 1/14th when Ardbert merged with us. We doubled in density (approximately - the 7th Rejoining probably hadn't filtered out yet). THAT would be fucking noticeable, way more so than (checks math) a 12% increase going from 8 pieces to 9 under the Emet-Selch assumptions math.
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That would also explain why the WoL has such a notably dense soul now.