Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
That's a weird perspective you've got on Elpis. It should be a big stand out, since not only do we go there once, but multiple times, even gaining a useable presence there that does influence the timeline because you see events we're responsible for. Chiefly, Pandemonium. Secondly, sidequests revolving around modern day monsters like the behemoth. Than the rituals, like Nymeia Lilies.

Also it wasn't knowledge of unrecorded history. It was knowledge of purposefully destroyed history.
Never recorded or recorded and wiped out is irrelevant. The people of the present day have no record of what happened back then, and they need to find out.

And yes, we're there in Elpis blithely creating stable causal loops where we describe a present-day thing and thus accidentally become the base inspiration for the present day thing, but we're not actually altering anything in the present day by doing so. Things are just getting absorbed into "how it always happened in the unknown parts of history" and the result isn't any different to what you were previously aware of.

As for Pandæmonium, I disagree with the characters' in-story theorising about "what if whatever is happening there will make the Final Days even worse". It seems straightforward to me that we can be confident that whatever happens in the past is what has already happened and will lead to the present day, even if the details would be different. We might be making the overall situation better by interfering, but ignoring it would not cause the situation to spontaneously worsen – although whatever later emerges into the present day might be exponentially worse.