Quote Originally Posted by Cassar View Post
Honestly that brings me to my second concern with this future sight thing - If the future she sees truly is a guaranteed future, then that somewhat goes against the multiple timelines aspect of the game's time travel. I mean think about it, if something is guaranteed to happen, and there's nothing you can do to change it even if you try, then that means it's something predestined, which kinda goes against the idea of infinite possible futures and alternate timelines, right?
The thing with FFXIV's time structure is that it isn't just infinite splitting possibilities. The timeline split created in Shadowbringers appears to be an exceptional event, which at least by my own theory on how it works, relies specifically on intervention by a time traveller. The rest of the time, there simply is one flow of time from past to present to future, and just because we haven't experienced it yet doesn't mean that it isn't there waiting to be experienced.

Also, I don't think that's at all the same thing as being predestined. It's more symbiotic: you are free to make your choices, and the future will/would/has turned out according to those choices. If you would have chosen differently, the future would have reflected that in the first place.