Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Never recorded or recorded and wiped out is irrelevant.
It's entirely relevant, since all we'd need to avoid time travel is to, IDK, have Hydaelyn tell us the truth about stuff. But you know...

Since the setting does allow for timelines to change, then the idea of, "This is how it always was." falls completely apart. That is supposition no stronger than any other. Remember the Shadowbringers trailer? Let what was written be unwritten and all that jazz?

We're not writing how it's always been. We're rewritinghow it will be. The 8UC timeline is actually the prime timeline in FFXIV's universe, where there is no WoL involvement in Elpis at all, because in the 8UC timeline there was never a Crystal Exarch preventing the 8th Umbral Calamity. And the WoL there dies and can't go back in time, or even to The First, to cause recursive paradoxes.

Without WoL's intervention with Pandaemonium, Lahabrea will be unswayed by Themis's appeal and unmake the facility with all of its keywards and inhabitants. Athena will never arrive in the present day to remake it, because Claudien or w/e his name was will never find a memory stone from Aitiascope causing him to go to Azys Lla and get body jacked. It has only as much impact as we involve ourselves in it. Until the writers make it super important directly in some way.