Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
I thought the time travel already happening thing affects our current timeline, but what about the other where it wasn't possible due to WoL being dead? Does our going back in time in this specific timeline affect all other timelines where it wasn't even possible?

My head hurts.
Imagine it like a shoelace frayed on one end and held together by an aglet on the other. Though each strand branches off in its own direction, they gradually converge into a single thread the closer they are to the aglet.

Which is to say that our time in Elpis came to pass even though we weren't alive to go back there in the Eighth Era timeline, because we'd already done so in the New Dawn timeline, and the two share the same root of "every moment prior to the split". There is some degree of convolution to be had, of course: If you try to imagine them as wholly separate timelines, then they're codependent on each other. This is the kind of strangeness that happens when time travel keeps cropping up in a story.

If it makes you feel any better, the writers have probably had to sit down and figure all this out themselves, so any pain you might be feeling is something they've shared. Maybe.