Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
My head is already kind of spinning at the potential time-wimey shenanigans that are enabling this raid story to even happen in the first place.
Prettymuch. I'm guessing the crystal might not actually be a soul stone, as such, but might be imbued with a message for us and/or a spell to bring us back to Elpis?

As much as we-the-player are free to return there at any time, I don't think our character can actually get back there at will.


Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
Maybe the Circles of Hell? Though that's a different cosmology...
It can be hinting at our concept of the "circles of hell" without being an actual hell.