To Louisoix

[Hohenheim]

Also, if you watch the scene where he's looking up, just before it cuts the behemoth, you'll notice his shield is actually reforming.

Looks to me likes its just shattering

[Hohenheim]

With us sent to the future, he doesn't have to maintain such a big AoE, so maybe he has enough for himself :P

We'll see.

well how far in the future do we get sent to have uldah look like those ruins

[Holy_Dragoon]

There is a theory that the past can not be changed, and sending us back would result in us potentially dieing, causing the 7th Umbral Era all over again while another set of adventurers dealt with the "current situation" (vague for spoilers on purpose)

[Hohenheim]

There is a theory that the past can not be changed, and sending us back would result in us potentially dieing, causing the 7th Umbral Era all over again while another set of adventurers dealt with the "current situation" (vague for spoilers on purpose)

Yea that usually how time travel works in media

[Holy_Dragoon]

Thus sending us back in time means the future is still screwed =)

[Gypsine]

Well also it creates a paradox. If he sends us back in time and we fix it then he would of had no reason to send us back in time in the first place.

[ArkNova]

gotta love time travel

[NefGP]

How do we know he doesn't make it? Yeah it LOOKS grim, but remember that he's also one of the Archons. I'm willing to bet the old bugger found a way to make it out. We're just your average adventuring dregs remember.

And if not, who's going to serve as the NPC for the primal battles in 2.0 ?

[Lyndis]

I'm pretty sure Louisoux wasn't an archon. The talk of archons was nothing more than rumors coming from the people in Eorzea. It was reinforced through the garlean temporary events that there was a man who was either a spy from Garlea or an archon. This guy turned out to be Urianger (or however you spell his name). These people are just members of a circle who deals in the prophecies of the umbral ages.

In truth I don't recall much about what an Archon really is. But I thought they were representatives of the twelve sent to reverse the umbral age (I'm sure I'm remembering this incorrectly). Doesn't that make us very similar to an archon? And who knows what power Louisoux called on to send us forward in time. It could very well be the blessing of the twelve.

I would be interested in the speculation of someone who knows the lore better than I.

[Jouten]

Yeah I was also thinking about the time travel part..if he's able to send people through time and space, why not send us back in time to stop all of this from happening rather than sending us into a future which is even worse than the present?:x
At least right now, Eorzea can still be saved...

Yeah like what all the other peeps said. Traveling back in time would cause a Paradox or an alternate timeline which either changes nothing or screws everything over. Halting our age and sending us into the future, basically cryogenically freezing us and thawing us later if you want to think about it that way, since time is relative makes a lot more sense. It's a space time sort of thing. Maybe he cast teleport, threw us in a gravity chamber (since the more gravity is placed on you, the faster time goes by around you) and had a timer on when it teleports back. Look into Einstein's relativity.