TIME PARADOX IMMINENT!

[Charismatic]

"untouched by the seasons" the seasons after Behe attacked woulda been hell

think its like when u sleep in a bedroom and some sort of monster shows up, someone carries u out of the room and u remain asleep till hes gone then puts you back in there, dont think its time travel, more like passing time till everythings alright in your "room"

think thats what it is but i dunno

i think i just like this sleeping idea lol XD

Who's to say we don't age though? Not like our characters have specific ages, so for all we know we COULD be 5 years older.

I don't know what anyone could think "untouched by the passing of seasons" could mean other than the characters are not affected by the passing of time... if not for that line I'd think our characters may 'age' or that this wouldn't just "be" time travel. That one line basically changes everything. Essentially the characters are placed somewhere that time does not flow specifically for them but apparently does for the rest of the world and then emerge later.

Functionally that sounds the same as time travel to me! s'all I'm sayin'.
Only reason I brought it up is some folks have stated that we 'wouldn't' be traveling through time, it certainly sounds like we are to me.

[Talshara_Blade]

Untouched by the passing of the seasons obviously means we are not aging.... So as far as we are concerned ...it's time travel.

[Jacien]

GREAT SCOTT

Everyone is looking too deep into exactly how we're arriving in the future. Stop arguing semantics.

Whether we're using a DeLorean to time travel or ancient magic from Fairy Tail to get caught in magical stasis, the end result is the same.

Our characters are basically gonna be the same when we pop out as we did when we went in. (unless you change your character or whatever, RPing doesn't hurt).

[Keith_Dragoon]

I declined his teleport offer and calmed Bahamut down.

On a serious note I think of it as time travel since Thaliak is guardian over space and time.

About Bahamut, chances are after nuking Eorzea he flew back to the land of dragons to rest and be with his people.

[YuriSan]

so from my understanding.... we are going back in time, but were only going back in time a few years , as all of the existing cast will be present in 2.0... are we going to cause a time paradox and meet ourselves?

wat? *scratches head*

[Jinrya-Geki]

We are suspended animation in a time rift much like Kingdom Hearts Chain of memories to KH2. What will feels like seconds to us, was 5 years to everyone else who was not sent into the future.

Then again if by what the video said, only the brave ones were spared. How 5 years did the population increase while we were in suspended animation while everyone else was killed? Mind Fudge!

[kimoi]

Who's to say we don't age though? Not like our characters have specific ages, so for all we know we COULD be 5 years older.

One year of in-game time is 18 days and 16 hours of actual time. Characters that were created the day the game launched are over 40 years older by now, ahaha.

[KimimiAvesta]

The important distinction in FFXIV's case between time travel and stasis is to stop everyone saying "If we can be transported five years into the future why can't we be transported five years into the past to stop Dalamud happening?". Because there's no time travel occurring there's no need for them to answer that question.

[Seyra]

How 5 years did the population increase while we were in suspended animation while everyone else was killed? Mind Fudge!

I thought the exact same thing. To me, the begining of A Realm Reborn isn't right when we wake up but a while after "until it is once again safe to emerge..." and we had some time to recreate a new Realm. I don't know, let's say Bahamut raged for 3 years, we get waken up at that time then the story starts 2 years after this.

Or people from other countries rebuilt everything.

[Vilhem]

I thought the exact same thing. To me, the begining of A Realm Reborn isn't right when we wake up but a while after "until it is once again safe to emerge..." and we had some time to recreate a new Realm. I don't know, let's say Bahamut raged for 3 years, we get waken up at that time then the story starts 2 years after this.

Or people from other countries rebuilt everything.

Could be a "lore" explanation for the introduction of the new races (male miqo'tes, female highlanders and female roegadyns)

My thoughts about rebuilding tho: the cities knew that a meteor was comin, so maybe they bunkered down somewhere (1950's bomb shelters!!) and came out once Bahamut was done throwin' his tantrum.

Adventurers were sent somewhere "safe" since we were in the direct line of combat maybe and not farther away like in the cities? I dunno.

Still, seems pretty weak that us "Brave adventurers" left the plebs to fend for themselves, then rebuild while we're napping. <_<