*Spoilers* Questions about Shadowbringers

[Alleluia]

Thinking about this...I have no idea when the Crystal Tower arc could take place in the story if you have started Shadowbringers, let alone Alexander and Omega. The exarch actually specifically mentions that the WoL and he hadn't met yet in the timeline when talking to Urianger in the Echo scene, but by all accounts the Garleans should have been using the Black Rose a little after your run-in with Elidizenos. Maybe I have the timing off in my head, but it feels like there wouldn't have been much of a chance for you to go side-questing with the war going on and all. You probably only left the front lines in the current timeline because of the Exarch poking you.

If you didn't do the raids yet and Black Rose was about to be launched at you, then you were on the path to an even worse 8th umbral calamity future cus no G'raha, CT, Alex, and Omega. So G'raha really, really did that version of the world a solid. It still works, though, since he's from another timeline anyway. In his timeline, you had done the raids. Its headache-inducing... but it works.

[Ilenya]

If you didn't do the raids yet and Black Rose was about to be launched at you, then you were on the path to an even worse 8th umbral calamity future cus no G'raha, CT, Alex, and Omega. So G'raha really, really did that version of the world a solid. It still works, though, since he's from another timeline anyway. In his timeline, you had done the raids. Its headache-inducing... but it works.

Yeah, it kind of is. Either that, or we had more of a break than it seemed. It was enough for Cid and group to get to Doma to poke at the shield wall again, so maybe we had time to deal with everything?

...Except Cid was involved with all three of the Raids required for this to work out.