Endwalker is the most controversial expansion

[Larirawiel]

Had they simply had her memories get wiped at the end of Elpis and thus left all of her choices untainted by knowledge of the future, it would've eliminated basically all of the reasons people took issue with how the story portrayed her. I remember you saying you'd feel like that would "cheapen" the decisions she'd made, but I feel like it would've made things much more gratifying if she had actually had to grapple with the weight of whether or not she made the right choice, as opposed to the angle of "It hurts to do this, but it's going to pay off eventually".

Sorry, but they should never let Elpis into the game like this. The problem is, since we are active in the past, there is no way to fix the causal loops without introducing new different ones. If you let Venat's memory being erased then there would never be a space ship. Because Venat would not know, that Meteion is responsible for the first final days etc. And even with this knowledge, Venat acts really stupid. I guess, the story writes must do that or they would have to retcon bigger parts of the story. And if you look more accurate on it, they have already made a big retcon. After dealing in Elpis in the past we are already in an altered reality. In ShB Emet-Selch tells us, that Hydaelyn fought with Zodiark and then she used the sundering ability and sundered everything except herself, Elidibus, Emet-Selch and Lahabrea. But in the EW story, she does not fight Zodiark. She went to the Convocation of Fourteen and said: "Loool, you all are sundered now!" And bammm, we are in an alternative universe.

Time traveling is hard. If the story writers have no clue how to do it right then they should not try it.


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