Final Boss of "The Twinning" Hunting for lore (Spoilers)

[Anonymoose]

That does depend on exactly how the Wings of Time work and what they can do with them. The screens in the final room indicate they might have the ability to observe across time and space (which would let them examine Omega as you suggested) but they don't seem to have been able to actually travel time prior to G'raha's single trip to the First, judging from the 'final message' we hear in the quest.

What I mean is that once you can observe Omega and discern what it's doing, you can recreate its functions as a means of traversing the rift. It's a logical hierarchy.

[1] The Emperor's Throne can breach a dimensional boundary. We saw it break into the void, which is small potatoes compared to breaking into a healthy dimension. However, if you're out to delete your own timeline, anyway, who cares how much power is required or what damage is done? And they had generations to work on that power source.

[2] If you break directly into another dimension, chances are you're breaking into it "today", where it is relative to you right now. Ergo, you can't just charge the Throne and cut in. Who knows what would happen. Who knows if a hole directly between the Source and First wouldn't just unmake the distinction between them. You have to leave the Source, enter the Rift, navigate the rift, and enter the First.

[3] You'll need the Wings of Time to attempt to not just end up at relative-today on the First. Even though the future Ironworks would figure out how to open a gate into the Rift, figure out how to navigate the Rift, and figure out where to aim for, he didn't stick the landing because relative-today wasn't where it "should have been;" time moves at the same speed within dimensions but the relativity between them oscillates unpredictably. Either way, the Emperor's Throne and the Wings of Time only get you so far. You need to know how to navigate the Rift. You need Omega tech.

[4] You can use the Wings of Time to observe Omega directly, extrapolate the possibilities for what it could do, and use those possibilities to exclude all the ways it can't work to identify what it is doing and then try to replicate that tech. The Wings of Time are all about possibilities and extrapolation; it could "see" worlds that never existed and things that never came to be, but it didn't think it could improve anything by taking action itself to change time from a 4D perspective.

[5] Use the Emperor's Throne to cut into the Rift, use the Omega tech to navigate the Rift, use the Wings of Time to step outside of the present and aim for a re-entry point, and then use the "summoning spell" to "unstick" people from where they "are" and bring them to where you "are" ... but that will be relative-today.