Shadows are the Calamity fragments we've all been carrying from the moment we first came to Crystallis. Since we still have them, I think it's safe to assume we haven't lost our connection to the Calamity.

[Jade pauses, then pulls out a certain transcript he took along just in case.]

Remember what Kalki said in her video tape? Her plan was for one of us to merge with the Calamity and become a God to recreate the world. I wonder if whatever she did to us could have been in preparation for that...