I know. [Her voice is soft.] And that might have been the plan when she was alive, but that's not what happened.

[She turns and looks at the wasteland.]

The world was split in two to end the war--becoming the planets Tethe'alla and Sylvarant--and to force those two planets to share what mana was left. It became a cycle of one planet flourishing while the other suffered and parts wilted and died without mana.