Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Actually that would have a big impact at an underlying "theory of time and dimensions" level. We already have to reconcile Alexander's single timeline with Shadowbringers' "rewriting history" business - which I've made sense of for myself at least, but my take on it certainly does not allow for an infinite multiverse. That's the complete opposite of what's been established in Alexander, whereas Shadowbringers is a bit more of a special case. (By my take, exceptional circumstances have caused one split in what is otherwise a single stable timeline, not an infinitely splitting one, and it won't happen again - at least without another case of a time-traveler deliberately changing what they know of the past.)

Also, I really hate infinite multiverses - it completely devalues your achievements. You failed and doomed the world? Don't worry, everything's fine on the other path. Someone had to get the dud one. Alternately, winning just means you doomed the other world.

It also specifically negates the entire point of what the Exarch was trying to do, because good and bad futures were both going to happen anyway. There are just a few more good variations now without removing any of the bad ones.





No location can be "a world that underwent rejoining", future or present. If it's been rejoined, it's gone.

It also can't be the distant future of anything unless the people of that world also worked out time and dimensional travel, minus Alexander - not impossible, but also opening up a whole extra can of worms.
What I meant to say, and probably did not convey was a world in which all the shards have been rejoined into one world. As for Alexander, I have only done the one clear of the whole raid sequence and have not delved very deeply into the lore implications. I'm actually much more au fait with Nier/Drakengard lore than FFXIV, so that's the main angle I'm approaching it from. NieR can definitely accommodate multiple dimensions, but perhaps FFXIV cannot... Which would be fine, because, as I said, I would find that a somewhat uninteresting solution anyway.