Quote Originally Posted by Ouen View Post
There's not much hand-waving in the lore of XIV, with the story having very few, if any, plot holes or inconsistencies that I'm aware of, so I am hesitant to conclude "well, time just conveniently flowed in such a way that Amdapor's founding and the Flood of Light coincided perfectly, then First-time virtually froze for 1,500 years, allowing for the events of the present to happen before the First can be rejoined. EVEN IF we assume this is the case, there's still something very, very strange going on.
Which would be quite strange indeed because Ardbert and his crew left after they realized what they have created which would then mean that they somehow waited so many years in stasis and then just came to our world and then the return was somehow really fast because the flood has still left one continent open.

(The story does say that different time goes in both direction, so theoretically 1 day on the first could have been x years on the source, but I am not a fan of that time stuff anyways...so much convenience)