Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post

I'm not following your explanation at all. If these are branches, where do they branch off? Why does it need two complete timelines starting from the ancient world just to diverge at Shadowbringers?
Regardless of where it branches off, in Graha's original timeline, before he jumped ship and changed his own future, there was a past that happened. This is what a timeline is. Point A to Point B to Point C etc. He diverged his timeline after Stormblood, which enabled the WoL to be able to go back in time. In this new timeline, which is seperate from the original because we now exist in it again, continue past Stormblood, through Shadowbringers, and into Endwalker where we go back 12,500 years, and learn new things about the End times.

This has an effect of thus:

1. We warn Venat of the future. In Graha's original timeline Venat could not have been warned about the future because we did not exist to go back in time to tell her.
2. We gain knowledge of the Endsinger, and spread that to both the Scions and Sharlyan. In Graha's original timeline this could not have been known because we would have never gone back in time because we were dead, and could not have told anyone about any of this.
3. We travel and have an affect on the events of Pandaemonium. This is to be seen how this may have differed, but more than likely the place got nuked or something originally.
4. During our trip to Elpis we cannot change the events that happen there significantly, as that would cause a MAJOR Paradox. By stopping the End of Days, we would prevent the sundering, which would make us as the player character and our world, not exist in that current world, and create yet another branch timeline. This is what Elidibus warns of.


It would be more appropriate to say that by changing the future, Graha created a Parallel Universe, that has a different history and leads a different path than the one his original world took.

If this still isn't clear, I'll make an illustration.