well techically from a Dev's stand point once they make it & give it to us its techically the past for them cause they are already working on the future... so they do have the story on something in the office somewere so our "fate" is techically sealed by the "Gods" of FF14's dev team so using that narative style is more true in a RL sence... damn it now I've gone all Temporal & warped reality on us