The 8th umbral calamity

[Jandor]

Which is fine and good; both Chrono Trigger and the Terminator were inconsistent with their rules, and just stuck with what worked for the story they were trying to tell.

That's fair enough for a story, but XIV is also a world. Only a fraction of my time in that world is spent experiencing the story.

Personal preference I suppose, but I prefer my MMO worlds to feel like they could theoretically be actual places, and that requires reasonably consistent rules about how things work. Not that I think the time travel is written inconsistently, but, y'know, hypothetically.