Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I don't see that as being either simpler or clearer. It's just an entirely different take on the mechanics, and it makes less sense to me than the diverging paths. It requires a different chain of events to have the same outcome in Elpis, because the WoL dies before they can perform the equivalent actions that are key to the state of the world they currently live in, instead of just having both timelines share a past and then split apart into copies.

I don't see that as simpler at all. It's far more complicated.
I view it as simpler because a separate parallel timeline allows the Eighth Umbral Calamity timeline to have its own past that isn’t dependent on the actions of a casual loop that half-originates in an alternate timeline. Especially when said Elpis causal loop can only exist because of the time travel changes Exarch!G’raha caused to create the new main universe timeline.