*Spoilers* The Past and After the Endwalker MSQ End

[Iscah]

Oh, I am by no means defending the WoLs usage of time travel during the Pandæmonium situation. At least for me I would never time travel unless it was the only way to solve an issue in "my" timeline.

I am regarding Pandæmonium as a chance to learn more about events in our own timeline. The crystal has surfaced in ours, after all.

Though also, theoretically, whatever we do or don't do there, it is almost certainly going to integrate into our timeline in the end exactly because we have no idea what happens there. If we save everyone, that's nice (in the short term) and we've probably set up Elidibus's memory of seeing us in Elpis. If it all goes to disaster, it's still a disaster long past that we have now learned about.

I don't think we can break our timeline here because we cannot contradict any events we already know to have happened – unlike the Final Days at large where we are very aware of the outcome.