Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I don't think we know of anything with the power to cross the timelines.

As I understand it, Alexander's power is to move back and forth through time in a physical space. Alternate timelines may or may not form as a consequence of that time travel, but it is not actually within Alexander's power to do that or navigate the resulting multiple realities.

Meanwhile, Omega has power over the rift that lies between the shards, but whatever separates the timelines is a higher-order divide that would need even greater power to cross, if it's even possible.

I would rather they didn't go down that path, and simply leave it there utterly beyond our reach.
The problem is that traveling back in time is fundamentally a one-way track.

In this scenario, we've got two futures: the original Bad Future where Varis used Black Rose, triggering the 8th Umbral Calamity, and the new Good Future, which G'raha made by traveling back in time from that same Bad Future and intervening. Since this "us" only exists in the Good Future, we lack the ability to perceive the Bad Future (that "us" died, after all). Any attempts to move forward in time will necessarily branch off of the Good Future, leaving us utterly unable to observe (and thus go to) the Bad Future. The only one who could conceivably do so is G'raha since he hails from that timeline, but he'd need a way to change which timeline he's observing and as an actor on the stage that's... no easy feat. Kinda what the Tycoon was needed for, at least in part.

I concur, leaving the Bad Future alone is for the best from a storytelling perspective. Involving it further will just make things even more of a headache than they already are (like G'raha being a walking paradox).