Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The one thing we have learned, as observers to the story, is that there is no averting that fate. They have been through it, and the fact that we are here in the modern day of the story proves that they have already been through it.

It's even touched on here as a "well, it happened, we're here and now we need to pick up the pieces and save this world now" – and on our final visit to the past, are under direct instructions from Lahabrea to not tell his past self anything.

From the WoL's perspective, if they chose to interfere, they would not prevent that suffering from happening, but would create a second world that is going to have its own new array of suffering, while at the same time cutting themselves off from (and for all they know, potentially destroying) their original world and all their friends. And they still would have not actually saved the Ascians from what they went through.

It was – barely – acceptable to do that to the 8UE timeline when they genuinely thought the world was going to be destroyed and everyone would be wiped out either way. But doing that to a living world wouldn't be heroic at all.

Plus, we're simply locked into the game as well as a narrative. We can't abandon this game setting for a new timeline.

Unfortunately for you, what the Ironworks of 8UC did is seen as heroic and the right thing to do. Both by the game and the players. So if that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what else.

And frankly, I don't really buy they thinking "oh no mankind is finished", when we don't know if Black Rose reach lands outside of Eorzea. But regardless, it's still a living world where people born, live, and die. The Ironworks should've forge ahead instead of seeking salvation on a different timeline they created.