Revelations from Keynote II

[Lauront]

Titania does kinda looks like the twins don't they?
If we are going to the future then maybe Titania is how an idealized version of one of them looks like.

But with all the sheer weirdness we are seeing in the previews alone i think we might be in for a "reality break" scenario rather than a time travel plot. The reason they still haven't given us a map is because each zone is in one of the shards. That would certainly explain a Nier raid (which just made me 300% more hyped for the expansion).

Could be where they're going with it. Not a bad suggestion, actually. They'll devote one or two to Dalmasca, plus we're getting the Rak'tika Greatwood, but for the rest (they may not even stop at 6), if they want to reserve Ilsabard for 6.0, they could certainly do that, and bring in some realm-hopping. It'd tie in with some of the fortunes from the current seasonal event.

I'd be more partial to Shard hopping than time travel, even with an awareness of the hints towards such a story arc... if they limited any time travel to one character coming back from the future, I'd be ok with it. It's one of those things that's best left on the shelf unless it really enhances the story narrative in some way.

[Guiballad]

Could be where they're going with it. Not a bad suggestion, actually. They'll devote one or two to Dalmasca, plus we're getting the Rak'tika Greatwood, but for the rest (they may not even stop at 6), if they want to reserve Ilsabard for 6.0, they could certainly do that, and bring in some realm-hopping. It'd tie in with some of the fortunes from the current seasonal event.

I'd be more partial to Shard hopping than time travel, even with an awareness of the hints towards such a story arc... if they limited any time travel to one character coming back from the future, I'd be ok with it. It's one of those things that's best left on the shelf unless it really enhances the story narrative in some way.

The team did a really good job on the Alexander storyline so i think they could handle a time travel plot quite nicely if they set some REALLY hard rules for it. But honestly i feel like time travel is always tricky to include in any story and can lead to some really frustrating plot holes or bad conclusions.
Breaking some in-universe rules to allow us to shard hop, even in a limited fashion, would give the team a lot of liberty to do some cool stuff without threatening much of the game's internal consistency.