*Spoilers* Questions about Shadowbringers

[Ilenya]

Now I'm picturing the Scions trying to stall for time while we go to investigate the tower... and have to deal with bratty young G'raha sending us on his merry chase for aethersand, blissfully unaware of how desperate our situation is.

I suppose, thinking about it, CT is the only one that WoL is required to have done to fit OMG's story. There could have been other Adventurers who happened to get involved with Alexander/Omega, since both are...Basically required for the story to make sense, but CT's just always going to be a catching point.

[Iscah]

I suppose, thinking about it, CT is the only one that WoL is required to have done to fit OMG's story. There could have been other Adventurers who happened to get involved with Alexander/Omega, since both are...Basically required for the story to make sense, but CT's just always going to be a catching point.

Technically yes, for now at least - although from memory I think G'raha tells Urianger that the concepts of time travel were developed out of certain events that happened during the WoL's adventures, implying that we historically did them.

But again, canonically we're supposed to have done the quests as they become available to us, and the time travel plot has opted to treat them as done rather than try to convolutedly follow the maybe-or-maybe-not approach of the "present day" MSQ.

Also, Omega is an "only the WoL could do this" due to Midgardsormr's involvement, and Dayan's expository talk at the wrap-up of the Alexander story seems to rely on our plot significance.

[Ilenya]

Technically yes, for now at least...

Just as a note, I'm not being entirely serious with my train of thoughts, just trying to figure out how it could possibly have happened. Just lots of random train of thoughts.

[MrThinker]

Technically yes, for now at least - although from memory I think G'raha tells Urianger that the concepts of time travel were developed out of certain events that happened during the WoL's adventures, implying that we historically did them.

Your memory is absolutely 100% correct here.

EDIT: Relevant Quotation from "The Unbroken Thread" - cutscene 1

Certainly. But where to begin? I should start with those great minds who survived the Calamity─Cid Garlond being perhaps the greatest. In hopes of staying the unending tides of war, he and his fellows pursued all manner of possible solutions. One of these was rooted in a theory which unified several fundamental principles discovered over the course of the Warrior of Light's adventures. It proposed a method by which one could enter the river of time, traverse the rift, and leap between worlds.

This part of the cutscene remains unchanged regardless of quest progression, so yes it assumes that the WoL (and not some other adventurers) will eventually, if they haven't already, beat Alexander, Omega, and the Cloud of Darkness.