Il Mheg 1/2 of two mirrored zones?

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I'm fine with "the echo" as our time travel device as it stands now. The time travel that is unable to change histories events.
It even feels under utilized to be honest and as i stated before it could be used to go to shards long rejoined to see their history to understand each calamity better that rejoined them.

I should preface this by mentioning that I am not unshakeably tied to the idea of this being a time travel plot and not dimensional travel, but I simply don't see any overwhelming evidence in favour of one and against the other. There is an argument for both at this point.

The main issue with proper controlled time travel being throwen into the game at this point is it's a slippery slope to where

Out Comes and Concequences become irrelivent

Without those whats left of the heros story?
What is there to invest in story wise? why bother with the MSQ they we'll just go undo it all anyway? why bother at all really?

It's the raise issue with npcs death in MSQ, while a caster with access to raise or have a phonex down couldnt we just save then? but for any aspect people don't like in the story.
1st stop we going back to save little Noraxia so there are no dead sylphs

However even with time travel added to MSQ in a controlled manor were we on MSQ rails and to our character time seem not to change out comes for us as we live it in our perseved time line because a 3rd party has come back in time to alter events, it still means the time line has changed from the time line they are from that future they came from.

Controled time travel now excists in the realm. You know who stands to benifit the most from time travel? Ascians they would be fawning all over itlike a flock of seaguils over a fryed chip

If they didnt have it, it would be long before they did they seem to have a greater understanding and control over the echo than we do.
Now that we have unmade 2 Ascian overlords and maybe a 3rd in their eyes they are sure to be having lower ascians watching our and our allies every move.

Thats why i said fine if this it's been tied to the 13th calamity and its tempral one fine, I'm sure it could be a great story to end MSQ , however we are only at the 8 and 9th if it is twin calamitys still 3 more before we get to the 13th.

I'm in no rush to see the end of FFxiv and the MSQ. There way to much other stuff to flesh out before they go ending it. The dimensional side for one the hole rest of the world for another.

However one thing the dimensional side has is a fresh slate it gives the creators more creative freedom something that isn't tied down to the original repair job of ffxiv.

Another thing they can do with dimensional travel is
Burn Rak'Tika Greatwood to a crisp in one dimensional maybe giving us the box art?
Personally I think that might be the Ad Mheg
and still have a forested Rak'Tika Greatwood all wooded and green on the source.

One more thing dimensional travel has going for it. Is the story writers can continue to do what they seem to love to do and have no one know of the warrior of light.
More fetch quest here we come >_<; .

There is one... being, for lack of a better term, that is not dead, and is not in the Aetherial Sea and is still in the Source. And that is Zodiark. He's in the moon and was forcibly separated from the rest of the Source's Aether while still being in the Source himself. You could say that that while his Aether isn't in the Aetherial Sea, his body is still in the Source and must be linked to his aether somehow seeing as Zodiark is not dead, merely imprisoned.

What happened with the Scion's souls matches what happened to Zodiark very well. Wonder if they ended up in similar places...

Not sure you can say its Quite the same, my take on Zodiark is it is not "hole" the sundering caused that and creating the shards in ten and three.

Also "Rebirth" of Zodiark has been the main aim of the Ascians to date, so their view is that Zodiarks status is dead. pesky dead statues need to shake that off

I figure each calling the scions ended up in different places on the same shard.
An interesting quest is why the calling has effected the scions it has ?

If I remember correctly, it was wielded by someone who identified as a scholar in 1.x which didn't have Arcanist

Arcanist was there in 1.x the same way we still have musketeer now (the double barreled pistols merlwyb uses)

Not playable and npc's only.

implying a lack of its study in Sharlayan.

"implying" but do you really see Sharlayan not having a study on a magic art ?