To Louisoix

[Punainen]

Dear Louisoix, WHY SEND US FORWARD IN TIME! The Empire in 2.0 has stalled in it's advance, Mor Dhona is only 1/3 taken over, hell we miss trains being invented, just use some Anima to tele all of us somewhere nice and safe, then we can go have a nice beach party of something!

I don't believe the trailer says anything about 'forward'. It says 'out of the reach of time'... Maybe we go to the past and try to prevent the Garleans from taking over as much as they did and stop Dalamud from ever even beginning to fall.

[Punainen]

I'm pretty sure Louisoux wasn't an archon. The talk of archons was nothing more than rumors coming from the people in Eorzea. It was reinforced through the garlean temporary events that there was a man who was either a spy from Garlea or an archon. This guy turned out to be Urianger (or however you spell his name). These people are just members of a circle who deals in the prophecies of the umbral ages.

In truth I don't recall much about what an Archon really is. But I thought they were representatives of the twelve sent to reverse the umbral age (I'm sure I'm remembering this incorrectly). Doesn't that make us very similar to an archon? And who knows what power Louisoux called on to send us forward in time. It could very well be the blessing of the twelve.

I would be interested in the speculation of someone who knows the lore better than I.

Actually, from what I've seen ingame, he is an Archon, and so are all our beginner quest friends, such as Thancred and Papylymo, etc. They call them Archons in the game, so I'm pretty sure that makes them Archons.

[Punainen]

You know its a videogame, right? Paradoxes don't matter, because if you want to get all technical...well almost nothing else in this game could exist either.

It does say "fight to REFORGE the fate of Eorzea". Which makes it sound like it already had a fate but then we try to change it.

[Arcell]

We're definitely not going back in time to stop Dalamud. We clearly don't stop it, it is the reason for the drastic map/terrain changes. I see it like this: We can stay in the present and die guaranteed or we can go do whatever Louisoix has planned and live to save Eorzea from the remaining Garlean forces.

It doesn't say that we are sent forward in time but for all intents and purposes we are no longer here when Dalamud hits and we reappear some point afterwards. Whether it's some kind of alternate dimension or purgatory or whatever, time passes without us being there.

[neorei]

ever since this game started i've always compared it to the ANIME/MANGA fairy tail. i don't know why, but this another reason why.

[PaperPrince]

ever since this game started i've always compared it to the ANIME/MANGA fairy tail. i don't know why, but this another reason why.

I was thinking the same thing. Louisoix doesn't actually send us into the future but instead takes us out of time and freezes us until its time for us to wake up again. Which happens in fairytail too.

[Aryden]

You realize that even if you are "frozen" in time or in some form of "stasis", if time continues to move forward from the point you were removed from it, upon your return you have traveled forward in time. It's not that difficult of a concept to comprehend.

Here is an example: you are Going tubing on a river with your friends. You have been drinking a lot and at some point you pass out while floating down the river on your inner tube. All of the events and conversations that happen while you are passed out still occur but you know nothing of them. When you wake up, you are further down stream, but it is as if no time has passed to you.

The river = time
Being drunk/passed out = whatever Louis does to us
Events & conversations = the Garlean invasion

Pretty simple.

[Sirakitty]

hey finally he gets his lazy ass up and doesnt stand arround in Gridania all the time.

[Zozor]

He probably could have taken care of all those primals himself. He felt a better use of his time would be hanging out by the pool.

I think he's been feeling guilty about his idleness. This must be some way of compensating for it.

[Etheos]

I have to agree after closely watching the trailer multiple times that his shield is in fact regenerating. Being how and why, I don't argue because I have no idea why. But it is indeed coming back.