Time is Running Out for the Ascian's Plan?

[Kuroka]

To be fair, Hades was long after he summoned the WoL physically, so we can assume he got the hang of it by then.

5 Years from Thancred to us, then weeks or smt till 7 random wol's xD

...but as G'raha said, he isnt very talented... Imagine Y'shtola or Uriangier would have gotten his job lol

[Edax]

Lately I've been hearing a lot of talk that the Ascians seem to be trying to push their plan for the remaining Calamities to happen as soon as possible and I remember reading from quite a few people that Lahabrea stated that they had to move their plan forward. They say that, for some reason, the Ascians feel like time is running out for them to get the remaining calamities. Where does that say and why would be the reason the Ascians feel that they're 'running out of time'? Is it because there are so few of them left?

Any thoughts?

From a meta sense, the Ascians have to act during the WoL's lifetime else the story won't get told. That is unless the writer introduce some kind of major timeskip.

[Gojin]

ascians are done we are beat their like strongest one ever its over. next threat please ascians are cancelled.

[MirronTulaxia]

ascians are done we are beat their like strongest one ever its over. next threat please ascians are cancelled.

Eh, so far Elidibus hasn't gone full summon mode on us. Given Hades I kind of hope for that with Elidibus (and it makes me sad Lahabrea and the rest didn't do that). But who knows really. It definitely is moving towards the story getting wrapped up at least. Which is for the best. XIV too is probably moving somewhat towards an endpoint itself. I don't expect it to end right now but probably they're at least tossing around ideas for the next MMO.

[Rannie]

There was a point during the MSQ where they were deciding on a time frame. While our character was sleeping at the Inn after the run we had through the Malikah's well and the pain attack we had from the nascent light breaking free, we got visited by G'raha and we had an echo dream (at the time we didnt know it was him in the future) of him at House Fortemps closing Edmont's book. He basically said that after the dragon song war that was too early to summon us and would it possibly be better if it was after freeing Ala Mhigo. They just needed to figure out exactly when after that.

[RyuDragnier]

The game may be going with the theory that there are a multitude of timelines where various things happened. All the Exarch did was come back and intervened, causing the game's events to branch off into a new direction. It won't effect his timeline, that one is done and can't be reset. This can explain why he's still here, why the Crystarium is still here, and how they can basically wrap up the time travel hijinks without going into full on confusing time/space rules. Because time travel can REALLY get confusing otherwise.

[Kuroka]

But ive been thinking, it might be that because hes at the first, a place that "didnt have a future" still exists, but would vanish the moment he'd step onto the source. Do we even know, was it the link to the tower that was stopping him from stepping over?

[Vyrerus]

I was doing the Warring Triad today on my LP alt, and I had kind of forgotten that Unukalhai's master is Elidibus. Now I'm trying to think about why he'd direct Unukalhai to have us defeat the Warring Triad. How does that relate to Ascian plans at large? Will think about it more after I play through 3.3~3.5 as well.

[MirronTulaxia]

I was doing the Warring Triad today on my LP alt, and I had kind of forgotten that Unukalhai's master is Elidibus. Now I'm trying to think about why he'd direct Unukalhai to have us defeat the Warring Triad. How does that relate to Ascian plans at large? Will think about it more after I play through 3.3~3.5 as well.

It certainly feels like a Chekhov's Gun just waiting to be fired. Along with being from the 13th they must have some plans on resolving things with him, I just wonder what at this point.

[thegreatonemal]

I was doing the Warring Triad today on my LP alt, and I had kind of forgotten that Unukalhai's master is Elidibus. Now I'm trying to think about why he'd direct Unukalhai to have us defeat the Warring Triad. How does that relate to Ascian plans at large? Will think about it more after I play through 3.3~3.5 as well.

It was a means to an end to fix the mess that Lahabrea left. I'm guessing the original plan had Thordan setting them free and them killing him for the eye then they would go back to their forever war with each other.