Revelations from Keynote II

[Lauront]

I still haven't got my head round the Alexander lore, but isn't the idea that the characters were trapped in a time loop (where the later events put in motion the earlier events required for them in the first place) and that due to Alexander being benevolent, he would not interfere?

Isn't this exactly where a being like Zodiark could differ? That is, putting aside whether he is benevolent, malevolent, or neither. Potentially sitting outside such a loop, given that he appears to have power over time.

Let's go a step further and say he can see past, present and future all at once, would he not then be able to speak of changing history, as in changing the course of actions you are engaged in now? In which case, there is no time travel, as we would usually understand it.

To me, Alexander sounded a lot like an entity overseeing a simulation and capable of interfering with what was going on inside the simulation.

I'll have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of such narratives (the Harry Potter type plot turn you mentioned) and it would potentially interest me even less than straight up time travel. It's the kind of thing I don't mind reading about in a book or the occasional game but it'd be pretty meh for me if this is what they have in store.