Why didn't Bard intervene during the Rune Wars?

XIII Vanitas·11/19/2018, 3:57:49 PM·2 votes·2,476 views

We've been told that the world runes have at least the same destructive power as hydrogen bombs, due to the fact that one of them was enough to annihilate an entire city and permanently change the nearby coastline. Bard's animated trailer showed us the cosmic entity taking away from human hands a magical artifact so powerful that it could easily cut a mountain top in half. Since the two destruction levels seem to be very similar in scale, why didn't Bard intervene during the Rune Wars?

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GreenLore11/19/2018, 6:44:08 PM4 votes

Who says that he didn't?

We don't really have a lot of info about how the rune wars ended and Bard often acts in ways that feel meaningless at first,but have great effect in the long run.

Ebonmaw Dragon11/19/2018, 4:01:15 PM2 votes

Maybe the multiverse is big and a single planet doesnt really matters.

Tattersall11/19/2018, 8:50:42 PM1 votes

It's been suggested that the egg thing he took away in his video was some sort of device that could summon Aurelion Sol. Aurelion Sol, if free from Targon, could easily destroy the planet, so there's that.

The World Runes could probably destroy the planet too, but I agree with GreenLore. It's totally possible, and dare I say likely, that Bard did intervene in the Rune Wars, just in a way that we can't see.