Quote Originally Posted by Imperius_Relampago View Post

Think of it like this;

A future version of you arrives infront of you. You see they are extremely wealthy, and they tell you that they won the lottery and created a scientific research company, who then discovered time travel. They then give you the winning lottery numbers and return to the future. You use those numbers and win the lottery and you end up creating a company based on scientific research. One of the researchers discovers time travel and you become the first person to use it. You arrive in the past infront of a younger version of yourself and tell them you won the lottery and created a company etc. then return to the present. From the moment you returned to the present, you have absolutely no knowledge on what to do next, as the future version of you only told you up to the point of the researcher discovering time travel, and the rest of what happened you just lived through it. Your knowledge of the future is gone, and so you must figure something out. That is what Hydaelyn was like.
That's fine- but it's cheesy. It's what it is because it's what we said it would be.

That kind of removes the agency from all the characters and puts everything on a deterministic path. If that is what they wanted to do (they DID say we couldn't change the future) then why did we interact with the Ancients at all? It should have kept us invisible to them and we should have just passively learned what happened. Honestly, that is kind of what I expected to happen. The fact that they made our presence there a crucial part of the way things turned out means that we created this new future - ok... but if that is the case, why did the future ignore so much of the REST of what happened in the past?

It felt like if you watched Back to the Future and he got back to the present and nothing had changed.... because they had written the story of the present first and then no matter what happened in the past, they were stuck in a corner. That's the problem with time travel I guess.