Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I just run with the assumption that FFXIV time travel has always worked on Bill and Ted rules. Which is to say, if someone time travels into the past, then they have always time travelled into the past; the WoL always went back in time to Elpis for those events, there is no timeline where they did not.

It's how Alexander's time travel mechanics worked, and that was the most rigorous exploration of them.
That’s how FFXIV time travel worked until ShB happened and now we have two separate timelines co-existing.