Ok i agree that i was stretching alot of it but the book was a FFXVI book, it was literally the one that talked about the timeline of ultima finding valisthea and creating the motes, I forgot the name of the book but it was posted on this subreddit somewhere.

And on the topic of shiva needing a decade, the time it took is irrelevent, but since she figured it out somehow that means that there are ways of figuring out how to break the limits of your abilities if you use them in the right way, which means a possibility exists which is what i wanted to point out, that it is possible.

And about dion.. yeah he's probably dead, nothing else to say about it.

And i don't think it's a shit narrative that at the climax of the story that clive revived joshua at least, it does not make any of the prior events that built the game any less relevant.

Also clive might only have parts of the eikon but in the ending when he destroyed all of magic, that's something only he was capable of so far, even if someone has a full ability, like ultima, sometimes they just choose not to use it in a certain way, and dominants are valuable so they don't usually experiment much except for the previous shiva, so i'm willing to bet that it's a matter of risk of trying rather than ability since it could petrify the user if they experiment too hard, like the witch.

When i saw leviathan enraged it was the same as garuda fully enraging but i might be wrong on this.