5 years to the future

[RoosterAgathos]

someone didn't see back to the future... you might make out with your own mom...

[Abriael]

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?

Sending someone in the past can have disastrous consequences.

[KamikazeMan]

Because SE wanted a good excuse for the landscape changing so drastically. The landscape had to change because it was just way too repetitive as it was. SE wants all changes to be part of the lore so that it doesn't break away from the immersion.

[Abriael]

Also, remember that Killing Van Darnus didn't really work, so even if he sent us to the past... to do what?

[Ryans]

Sending someone in the past can have disastrous consequences.

So can having a giant aether prison that is carrying Bahamut come crashing on to the planet.

[Erana]

Rather than a time-travel spell, it was said that we were "taken out of time". Think of it as being put into Stasis for 5 years.

[Majidah]

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.

Oh I see. It was the gift of space, not time then!

[Majidah]

Also, remember that Killing Van Darnus didn't really work, so even if he sent us to the past... to do what?

It didn't work because it was too late. Use your brain.

Nael put the proyect in motion. Killing him before that would have prevented the whole drama.

[Kiote]

Come on people! Everyone knows that when you travel in to the past and alter the course of time, you end up creating multiple dimensions of the same world that ultimately result in the creation of Abyssea and the total destruction of a good MMO.

[Wolfie]

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

Garlean Gazette:

"5 time-travelling Eorzean assassins kill innocent baby Nael van Darnus, declared first international time-travelling terrorist criminals. Garleans out for blood, declare war on Eorzea and vow vengeance at all costs."