"Five years into the future" (Why?)

[Laume]

I suppose you're right. The setting for ARR is just 5 years after, there's no guarantee that we were teleported to 5 years after. Since we can change our character name and model, there's no guarantee that we're coming back as the same person. Thaliak, however, is not the god of time, but the god of wisdom and rivers. We could have just been teleported out of the battle so that when the time comes, we can get a second chance to save the lands. And it's just taken 5 years to rebuild to a point where we could. With that said, we don't know what caused bahumut to stop killing everything and allowed the land to live for 5 years. Not to mention the descriptions of the previous umbral eras are a bit hazy. I guess there's no way to tell until 2.0 comes out.

Oh, and I wondered if Louisox had a direct hand in atomos. After all, the only thing I know of that can send people beyond space and time is atomos.

Look at the bright side, at least it's not 10 years after:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HhidoWzm8M
(sorry, that song keeps going through my head when I hear "5 years after")