Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Some of the Sharlayan scholars are aware of the ancient world and time travel. I don't know if the one issuing the hunt requests does, but there was that couple in the crafting quests as well as the ones involved with Pandemonium. And I guess with post-EW, Pandeomonium rising up into the Aitiascope would put a lot more in the know about the old world.
They're aware of the Ancient world in the same way that we're aware of, like, the Mesozoic Era. Most of the studium quests that bring up Elpis stuff (the gathering ones, namely) bring it up in sort of a theoretical way, like 'getting X would really prove my theory' while knowing that's an unrealistic expectation.

Time travel they similarly have a conceptual grasp on, what's muddier is how much access they themselves have to it. The Fisher questline's English translation implies they do and just weren't using it, while other languages are more saying 'I mean we knew what you just proved, but we didn't expect you to ACTUALLY prove it'.