Quote Originally Posted by Lasana View Post
Beautiful story, easily my favorite of the ShB Tales.

I'm still full of questions about the Bad Future timeline, though: if the Source is actually dying there, what does that mean for the Bad Future!Ascians' plans? I thought they needed life to be able to continue on the Source after all the Rejoinings were complete (Emet tells us the plan is to sacrifice the life left over to bring back their fallen Amaurotines), and it seems like that won't be the case in this timeline. Emet and Lahabrea are both presumably still alive in the doomed future, so maybe they're planning to undo the Black Rose effects and get civilization going again at some point, finish off the remaining Rejoinings and call it a game?
Why would Lahabrea be alive? He died before the timelines would have converged (A point which I believe may have been the Exarch talking to us after we fought Elidizenos). Also, the entirely of the world was not affected by the Black Rose, as far as I can see. Garlemald, by all appearances, wasn't directly affected, and I don't think lands beyond Eorzea were, either. It's possible Limsa avoided the worst of it, as well. The story specifically mentions Ala Mhigo, the Shroud, and Thanalan...The areas closest to where the weapon was deployed. It's possibly Coerthas got a hit of it as well, but I suspect the part that would make everything uninhabitable didn't go too much further. The effects of the area no longer working as intended would have reached far, but not necessarily the initial effects.