Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Meanwhile, I go into our visits to the past with the prospect of the time loop first and foremost. Yes, it would be nice to have the freedom to tell the whole truth and save the ancients from their fate, but that is inherently impossible. There is no mere "planting the seed to save their future generations" and then retreating to your own timeline – if you've changed it, you've changed it, and still not actually undone the suffering that has already happened.

In fact, given that we cannot undo the suffering experienced so far by the ancients in this timeline, then I would argue that the best thing we can do for them is to make sure we stick around in this timeline to bring about a happy ending to what they were trying to achieve. If we vanish off into a second timeline and abandon this one, all that they went through up to now was for nothing.
Why would this timeline be doomed when meteion has been defeated? The ultimate boss has been defeated, the world has been saved and the sundered got their happy ending. What prevents us to give the alternate timeline the chance to prevent all those tragedies? Also what happy ending exactly we can achieve for them? Etheirys being saved is like a consolation prize, the Ancients are no more. The real elidibus died crying. Real Laha died knowing he failed his son. Only emet has a bit of catharsis but only because the game butcher his character into more WoL wank.