*Spoilers* The Past and After the Endwalker MSQ End

[LystAP]

We’ll then we need only two things.

1. We need to rediscover time travel magicks. It’ll take centuries of work, and lots of blood, sweat and tears. You’d also need to an Ancient to help improve and empower the process.

2. You need a massive amount of aether and a way to store it. You can use the crystal tower again, but you’d need to supplement the Aether in some way as even the amount from the Calamity of Earth will be lacking. Might need to summon a primal, one equivalent to the heart of Zodiark.

Then when you get there, you better hope someone with the ability to perceive aether like Emet and Hyth are around, not just anyone can see the weakened form you’ll arrive with. Thereafter it’s up to you. You can try convincing them of what’s about to happen, most won’t believe you without proof and you won’t be at Elpis in time for the proof to reveal itself. You’d also need to avoid being captured and interrogated.

But let’s say you convince them of Meteion. At that point you’re basically opening a black box. Based on Venats judgement many Ancients would fall to despair, Hermes will rebel and fight against you, Zodiarks summoning is likely ruined and you have no Ragnorak or Mothercrystal to get to Ultima Thule.

IF you manage to forestall the Final Days, you’d still be alone to fight against Meteion, no dynamis controlling friends with you. Unless the Ancients try to make them, which may be a hard sell given you’re basically creating a group of empathy beings to send off to hell. They’ll not have the bonds you have with the Scions, nor memories of past trials to give them strength.

But maybe. Just maybe. You’ll do so. And then you’ll likely die as you’ll not have allies to call, or dying Ancient friends that are waiting for your word.

1 and 2 are already done. We can teleport to Elpis at a specific point in time - where people acknowledge us as Azem's familiar. There doesn't need to be a complex rationale behind it. Some weird timely wimy thing has us linked to this particular Elpis in space and time. Do recall that the First wasn't always temporally balanced with the Source. The other Scions spent years in the First whereas only a few months have past on the Source when you went back. The rest will depend on SE writing the plot. The quickest way is to just have the Convocation use the Echo on you. The Ancients also have ways to determine if your lying.

Venat judged that many would fall to despair when faced with 'reality', but that's also her own presumption. That's an assumption Vauthy made of people of the First as well, but we've seen how that turned out. In this expansion, Vrtra was convinced (based off his eons of experience) that everyone would hate him, but it didn't turn out that way either. As is noted in the story, Venat as flawed as much as everyone else.