[Spoilers] The Device in DT msq

[Iscah]

Keys　 ：)


(Pg. 78 of the EE has a quick one-pager on them. Gives the impression they might have been important plot devices in a discarded plotline.)


It's probably a coincidence.

OH WAIT I was here for that. Put it out of mind entirely once it was looking like abandoned plot thread from before they rewrote the Ascians into Amaurotines, plus I know there had been stuff in 1.0 so I assumed you were talking about that.

*rummages around the script box*

From An Uninvited Ascian:

NABRIALES
Now is the time to claim the staff!
With it in my grasp, I shall rise above them all and take my place at Lord Zodiark's right hand!

The staff Tupsimati─or rather, the stone tablet it bears─is host to a great power.
Together with the horn, it can be used to draw vast quantities of aether from its bearer's surroundings.

What use!? You mean to say that all this time, you kept the key, never knowing what it was you possessed?

It would certainly be interesting if they've come back to clean this up.

Same deal with Elidabus’s sudden mastery over being able to send us exactly where and when we needed to go (Elpis), despite the ancients fully believing time travel was impossible, humanity needing several generations to get it kinda-sorta-right (although off by some years?), and us destroying the Alexander control unit in the basement.

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The starship is another problem I have. Sharlayan has the ability to link aetherytes (Thav to Sharlayan), so travel is possible without actually having gone before. So why not get the rabbits to twin the moon to a top secret aetheryte? Why build a ship at all when people (in general) can just teleport? Even Thancred without his magic could teleport. Need Sharlayan people specificity to go to the moon? Ok, sure, don’t need that big of a ship to do it.

Elidibus did sort of get fused with the tower and he picked up the Exarch's memories along the way, so he's got a grasp of at least the fundamentals of the device and I could accept that from that starting point he could have the right additional knowledge how to make it work better and open up a precise portal to the right place and approximate time. It does annoy me that they seem to have forgotten about destroying the time machine core, though.

As for the starship, if the will of the star Herself tells you it's absolutely necessary to build a starship then that's what you build. Behind the scenes it's likely that Hydaelyn playing near-literal 4D chess to make the people think the starship is needed for the evacuation, but actually intends all along that it will take you to where Meteion has gone.