Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
TL;DR - time is really complicated, but to say there's only one timeline isn't accurate. There's just only one we can observe.
I remember reading up on this sort of stuff back when I was looking into various terminology and jargon used by other speculative fiction, but I soon gave up because I have this instinctive urge to try to simplify and analogize everything, and I get the feeling this does not work with quantum concepts.

This discussion did remind me of the concept of quantum immortality, ie the Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment from the viewpoint of the cat. Basically, the cat is always alive, because otherwise there would be no observer to observe the timeline, since there is no outside observer (at least for the sake of this thought experiment).

And then I got to wondering how far we can apply this to the way players keep wiping to raids and bosses, and yet the Warrior of Light continues to survive and win, from the viewpoint of everyone else.