5 years to the future

[Majidah]

I know it hasn't been confirmed we were teleported 5 years into the future.

Just that ARR takes place 5 years in the future.

But in any case, I showed the video to someone with zero knowledge and she asked me why didn't the elvaan send us to the past to prevent Dalamud's falling.

I drew a blank.

Why didn't we get ported to the past in order to prevent it?

[yukikaze_yanagi]

because if we coudn't win with the help of 12 gods, sending us in the past would changed nothing ? Not speaking of all the time paradox being in the past averting an apocalypse never happened at that point

[Nero]

I know it hasn't been confirmed we were teleported 5 years into the future.

Just that ARR takes place 5 years in the future.

But in any case, I showed the video to someone with zero knowledge and she asked me why didn't the elvaan send us to the past to prevent Dalamud's falling.

I drew a blank.

Why didn't we get ported to the past in order to prevent it?

Do we wanna talk about Trime Travel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel

[Momita]

Good Question! =)

But We know If We can go in the past?
In the past we would met ourself... and paradox.. no thank u p (If we prevent the fall... so our future never exist.. so we too..)
Btw, preventing How?
And Garlean Force is surely more powerful of Us.. and probably coming back, someone will believed in us? We alone with all Empire?

[Majidah]

because if we coudn't win with the help of 12 gods, sending us in the past would changed nothing ?

-> travel to when Nael was a baby
-> put a slug in his brain
-> dalamud adverted

[Majidah]

Good Question! =)

But We know If We can go in the past?
In the past we would met ourself... and paradox.. no thank u p (If we prevent the fall... so our future never exist.. so we too..)
Btw, preventing How?
And Garlean Force is surely more powerful of Us.. and probably coming back, someone will believed in us? We alone with all Empire?

Well, it was Nael's proyect, not the empire's. Gaius is against dalamud, for example.

Just taking Nael out before he set things in motion would have been enough. Instead of running around taking out avatars, feeding Dalamud

[Arcell]

I know it hasn't been confirmed we were teleported 5 years into the future.

Just that ARR takes place 5 years in the future.

But in any case, I showed the video to someone with zero knowledge and she asked me why didn't the elvaan send us to the past to prevent Dalamud's falling.

I drew a blank.

Why didn't we get ported to the past in order to prevent it?

Because the entire point of the 7th Umbral Era story was to explain all of the giant game/map changes.

[Zomb]

Realizing the end is nigh, Louisoix summons the last of his strength to call upon Althyk, the Keeper, god of space and time, to send those surviving heroes into an aetherial rift, where they are to remain untouched by the passing of the seasons until it is once again safe to emerge...and continue their struggle to forge Eorzea's future.

http://na.square-enix.com/finalfanta..._end_of_an_era

According the lore posted on the SE site we weren't teleported 5 years into the future, we were sent into an aetherial rift that sounds like some sort of limbo where we will stay for 5 years lore-wise.

[Vilhem]

We didn't travel right to the future, so in a sense it wasn't "time travel". Louisoix ported us to some unknown area (alternate dimension) where we lay safe until it's time to come back to rebuild. 5 years pass before it's safe.

[Ryans]

Maybe it isn't an actual time travel spell, but rather a spell that takes us out of the dimension we live in. So we experience a passing of seconds but the world aged 5 years.

Maybe it was a spur of the moment thing by Louisoix and the first thing he thought of was sending us to the future. He was getting blown up by a megaflare at the time, not much room for processing information.

Maybe he felt we had already exhausted all options and Bahamut/Dalamud couldn't have been stopped no matter what we did in the past.

I think I prefer the first idea. I believe it would make the story flow a lot better.