*Spoilers* Questions about Shadowbringers

[EdwinLi]

No, it doesn't change. We keep having this conversation. That's not how the game handles optional quests.

CT happened in post-ARR. Nothing changes that.

Dialogue in the CT quests, particularly involving Nero, indicates you are in post-ARR regardless of when you do it.

Completing the CT after Shadowbringers then rewatching the cutscene where G'raha previously claimed you hadn't met yet has altered that line. The events of CT have been "slotted in" to the overall story at their appropriate time and have now happened prior to your trip to the First, even if you played them afterwards.

The events of CT are not affected by the changes to the timeline initiated in post-Stormblood because they took place before the timeline split and have not been altered.

I am speaking of how the MSQ handle the view of things, Not how CT handle your progress in MSQ.

CT will always be considered in 2.X era but MSQ dialogue is based on progress in the CT thus the MSQ view of the New Timeline is hard lock on how far has been progressed in CT being...

1) New done CT = Not met yet.

2) In Progress CT = He will say he is adventuring with WoL currently.

3) Complete CT = He will say they met already

This changes what Block Timeline the WoL is in being that is #1 is the case then the timeline is a New Timeline that never had CT event happens or have not happened yet, #2 case is a timeline when CT story was only half way done thus G'raha Tia has not yet sealed himself in the Tower but in the future he will eventually, and Case #3 is the new timeline where things progressed as intended and CT happened in 2.X.

If a player start with Case #1 and finish 5.0 then finish CT after, then they are no longer in Case #1 timeline but in Case #3 new timeline where CT did happen in 2.X era and Case #1 becomes a Previous Timeline that happened before something happened before Exarch G'raha Tia Block Timeline.

In a Block Timeline, all possible outcomes happened in one possible Block timeline that previously existed until that Block stopped and a new Block continues where it left of as a New Timeline with events changing in certain areas. In this case Case #1, #2, and #3 still happens but if it is the current Block Timeline or a Previous Block Timeline that happened before is up to the player's view of things.

It is like a cycle that repeat itself in slightly different ways until one Block allow the Cycle/river to reach the intended destination being the current events in MSQ (with the Player's choices taken into consideration as well).