*Spoilers* Major Hydaelyn/Timeline question

[Cleretic]

I just run with the assumption that FFXIV time travel has always worked on Bill and Ted rules. Which is to say, if someone time travels into the past, then they have always time travelled into the past; the WoL always went back in time to Elpis for those events, there is no timeline where they did not.

It's how Alexander's time travel mechanics worked, and that was the most rigorous exploration of them.

[AlysanneVrannai]

I just run with the assumption that FFXIV time travel has always worked on Bill and Ted rules. Which is to say, if someone time travels into the past, then they have always time travelled into the past; the WoL always went back in time to Elpis for those events, there is no timeline where they did not.

It's how Alexander's time travel mechanics worked, and that was the most rigorous exploration of them.

As of right now, there are both bootstrap paradoxes and multiple timelines in the canon multiverse. The Midgardsormr guardian timeline that G'raha comes from still exists, and is trucking along under his guidance in the 8th era.