Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
The miracle of the Crystal Tower was in combining shard-hopping with Alexander's technology to create time travel. Midgardsormr himself could travel the rift, it's well possible that one of his children did so at some point in the past.
Can he, though? The one example we have of him "traveling the rift" was when he entered Omega's domain to rescue us - and there is no evidence that the way Omega's pocket universe worked is in any way related to how the Shards are divided from the Source.