Teleportation in Shadow Bringer - Obvious SPOILER

[Celef]

I had a little question popping in my mind last night :

If we are going to visit another Shard of reallity by using the Cristal Tower as a door....does that mean we won't be able to come back in our Shard (meaning the actual Eorzea we are living in) unless we realise certain action in the First ? ^^"
What about our houses, retainers, and actual dungeons/raids/Primals ? ^^"

Stupid question I know but I was like "wtf ?" xD

[OcieKo]

Likely going to be a point where gameplay requirements will just be allowed to break the story/lore immersion. I doubt if they do short term lock it, it will be locked for more than a few hours into the First.

[kamikrazy]

Obviously we can teleport at will at any time, though this is just a gameplay mechanic. The WoL likely has to go to a great deal of trouble to do this themselves.

[Iscah]

It will be necessary from a gameplay standpoint that they don't lock us out of old areas, so the story will have to allow for it.

It should be easy enough to say that the aetherytes can be 'traced' across different layers of dimensions, and that teleporting to one also transfers you to whichever physical world it is located in.

[Vulcwen]

I would like to see a different spell animation when crossing shards. Lorewise I'd expect it to work like this:
Use the echo to cast yourself in the lifestream of the correct shard, then draw yourself to the correct aetheryte.

Of course, when we go to the First the first time, we won't have an aetheryte that we attuned to there, so we need something else.

Things like retainers and trading would be harder to explain, but I expect that we will open a path to the First for others to take at some point in the story.

[DarkMasamune]

Perhaps we'll have a special item that we can use to cross to the other side at will ?

But I doubt they will lock us out of the old areas

[RicaRuin]

Banri Oda himself said in the Q&A part of the Japan FanFest Live Letter that we shouldn't take gameplay mechanics too serious from a lore standpoint (example was the Duty Finder).

So, I guess we can teleport just fine, but story will act as if we didn't.

[ReiMakoto]

I'm calling the crystal tower is one giant aetheryte which allows teleportation cross worlds. So our current teleportation ability will just go through the CT when we want to jump world.

[Neophyte]

Seems like some people already forgot how it was done after our character got 'captured' by the Amal'ja...

a.k.a. 'you're free to teleport whenever you want out of your prison; also you can queue for Ifrit now!'

[LineageRazor]

As others have said, it's pretty much inconceivable that we will become unable to return to the Source at will - even for just a short space of time. The only question is how much time they'll bother to spend explaining how it's possible. Personally, I consider it very likely, once we get to the First, there will be a cutscene that explains that the Crystal Tower has been established as a conduit to allow easy transport between the Source and the First - all before we're able to take even one step onto the First Shard while under our own control.

Seems like some people already forgot how it was done after our character got 'captured' by the Amal'ja...

a.k.a. 'you're free to teleport whenever you want out of your prison; also you can queue for Ifrit now!'

Amal'Ja Priest: YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO OUR TRAP! OUR GREAT LORD IFRIT WILL SUP UPON YOUR SOULS!!!
WoL: Mind if step out for a bit? My retainers just got back in, and I want to send them out again.
Amal'Ja Priest: VERY WELL, IT CANNOT BE HELPED. BUT DO NOT DAWDLE, FOR OUR LORD'S WRATH IS VAST, AND HE IS NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH!!!
WoL: Fine, fine. I may run a dungeon, as well; we're getting close to the daily reset.
Amal'Ja Priest: WE BELIEVE IN THE HONOR SYSTEM. DO NOT SPOIL IT FOR FUTURE PRISONERS! THIS IS WHY WE CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS!!!

And again, later with Ravana!