Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 2)

Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Correct me if im wrong, but in order to accomplish their time travel feat, they needed the assisstance of an Unsundered (Omega) and a primal (Alex). So its not really of their own doing, they needed assistance from higher up beings. Rift travel btw is feasible - we know it from Hades, because he summons Azem using the ancient incantation. The ironworks feat simply caused the timelines to diverge, that timeline may endure, but it was not changed. So even should the Ancients have resorted to time travel, it would create a new timeline but not alter their own. I'm not saying btw the sundered arent necessarily non-inventive, but they are weaker than the ancients in some respects.

Omega is not an unsundered, but rather a being like Midgardsomr. A being outside that paradigm. Furthermore, it took the usage of the Crystal Tower. A structure build by "lesser" beings.

Originally Posted by Caurcas

Omega is not an unsundered, but rather a being like Midgardsomr. A being outside that paradigm. Furthermore, it took the usage of the Crystal Tower. A structure build by "lesser" beings.

A structure built by lesser beings with guidance of Asians aka The Ancients. It is pretty much implied that the tower was meant as catalyst to cause the calamity which it in fact did.

The Ancient didn't seem to be unaware of time magic, with Gaia being primary example. It is simply acknowledged by even Cid and Nero that the idea of time travel was unreliable at best, both in it's success rate and the potential repercussions that would happen by creating a paradox. They only went through with the idea because they were desperate. Honestly if the plan was to be public knowledge there would have been opposition as well. Sadly since our source is only one sided we never know of it.