I don't believe the trailer says anything about 'forward'. It says 'out of the reach of time'... Maybe we go to the past and try to prevent the Garleans from taking over as much as they did and stop Dalamud from ever even beginning to fall.
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You know its a videogame, right? Paradoxes don't matter, because if you want to get all technical...well almost nothing else in this game could exist either.
It does say "fight to REFORGE the fate of Eorzea". Which makes it sound like it already had a fate but then we try to change it.
We're definitely not going back in time to stop Dalamud. We clearly don't stop it, it is the reason for the drastic map/terrain changes. I see it like this: We can stay in the present and die guaranteed or we can go do whatever Louisoix has planned and live to save Eorzea from the remaining Garlean forces.
It doesn't say that we are sent forward in time but for all intents and purposes we are no longer here when Dalamud hits and we reappear some point afterwards. Whether it's some kind of alternate dimension or purgatory or whatever, time passes without us being there.
ever since this game started i've always compared it to the ANIME/MANGA fairy tail. i don't know why, but this another reason why.
You realize that even if you are "frozen" in time or in some form of "stasis", if time continues to move forward from the point you were removed from it, upon your return you have traveled forward in time. It's not that difficult of a concept to comprehend.
Here is an example: you are Going tubing on a river with your friends. You have been drinking a lot and at some point you pass out while floating down the river on your inner tube. All of the events and conversations that happen while you are passed out still occur but you know nothing of them. When you wake up, you are further down stream, but it is as if no time has passed to you.
The river = time
Being drunk/passed out = whatever Louis does to us
Events & conversations = the Garlean invasion
Pretty simple.
hey finally he gets his lazy ass up and doesnt stand arround in Gridania all the time.
He probably could have taken care of all those primals himself. He felt a better use of his time would be hanging out by the pool.
I think he's been feeling guilty about his idleness. This must be some way of compensating for it.
I have to agree after closely watching the trailer multiple times that his shield is in fact regenerating. Being how and why, I don't argue because I have no idea why. But it is indeed coming back.