Quote Originally Posted by Ilenya View Post
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).
My goof! I meant Elidibus, I know Lahabrea's been out of the picture for a while.

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.
IDK, Urianger and the Exarch's scenes about in ShB make it seem like the effects spread past Eorzea and Garlemald and into the Far East too. We could also interpret those scenes to mean that civilization across the globe collapsed from both the Black Rose's effects and the whole "Mad Max" fall of civilization, but they keep using the word world, not just Eorzea.

Grand-Biggs' last message to the Exarch at the end of the Twinning also has him saying he doesn't expect the world to last much longer. YMMV how literal he's being about that - to me, it doesn't make sense that EVERYTHING would go to hell as badly as it has in the Eighth Calamity if the damage to the planet (where apparently, they can't even grow crops anymore!) was just limited to where BR was deployed.

It's something that has me (morbidly) curious, and I really hope we find out more about the Bad Future in the patches. It's amazing to me that after all Ironworks accomplished, Cid still found it more practical to invent time travel than heal the damage from Black Rose.