5 years to the future

[Abriael]

It didn't work because it was too late. Use your brain.

Nael put the proyect in motion. Killing him before that would have prevented the whole drama.

*sighs* "use your brain" uh?

And when would you send the adventurers? and where? Umbral Eras are a natural occurrence, Dalamud continued to fall simply because the sevent umbral era was inevitable.

Lou himself says that destroying the controller should have definitely stopped dalamud, but it did not.

[Alaltus]

I know it hasn't been confirmed we were teleported 5 years into the future.

Just that ARR takes place 5 years in the future.

But in any case, I showed the video to someone with zero knowledge and she asked me why didn't the elvaan send us to the past to prevent Dalamud's falling.

I drew a blank.

Why didn't we get ported to the past in order to prevent it?

I think that Dalamud falling was inevitable, no amount of time traveling could stop it without disasterous consequences even if it were an option. If you killed Nael in the past ignoring paradox issues, you dont know Bahamut wouldn't find another to replace him. If you go back and stop Bahamut's creation chances are the future is changed so greatly that everyone in the present would be erased from existence. That and fighting a flying baby Darnus would be more comical than compelling =P

[JusticeReborn]

I know it hasn't been confirmed we were teleported 5 years into the future.

Just that ARR takes place 5 years in the future.

But in any case, I showed the video to someone with zero knowledge and she asked me why didn't the elvaan send us to the past to prevent Dalamud's falling.

I drew a blank.

Why didn't we get ported to the past in order to prevent it?

For what it's worth:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ure-%28Why-%29