Originally Posted by
KageTokage
I'm leaning towards the place Thancred was in being the first shard's version of Ul'dah after the stinger in the 4.5 trailer basically confirmed that one of the shards is going to be involved in the plot of Shadowbringers somehow.
It makes more sense then this being some kind of time travel scenario, IMO, and we already know that the different shards have varying degrees of fluctuation in how much they differ from the source, so it seems plausible that the first could have the strongest similarities, to the point where it could be considered an alternate history.