[Venat leans into the touch slightly, though perhaps not consciously; she has already lit up that little bit over having a story to tell.]
During a serious clash between the Garlean Empire and the Eorzean Alliance, the former unleashed a terrible poison known as Black Rose. Initially intended to only kill the Alliance's members and quash their resistance, it fed off light-aspected aether, which was at a zenith for somewhat-related reasons. The poison multiplied and spread, slaughtering not only Eorzeans but toppling the Empire as well, and coming as close to erasing civilization as is possible without doing so fully.
[She relates this story calmly and without excess emotion, as if she were explaining what she had for dinner the night before.]
A man of great genius sought to undo this calamity through the only means he could conceive of: sending a person through time and space to prevent Black Rose from emerging, or at the very least, from deriving such uncontained power through the light. He and his team combined the spatial manipulation of the extraterrestrial Omega and the temporal manipulation of the great primal Alexander to send a sole inhabitant of the Crystal Tower, an Allagan creation that contained elements of both, to the past.
I speak often of timelines splitting, and that event is why. Their actions split their timeline, as they knew it would. Their own cursed existence would not end, but by their choices, they allowed a new and greater timeline to calve off. That is the one I hail from. And that story contains your answer; to change the past so dramatically is not to change the future that has been set, but to create a new one alongside the old.
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Date: 2024-09-23 09:07 pm (UTC)During a serious clash between the Garlean Empire and the Eorzean Alliance, the former unleashed a terrible poison known as Black Rose. Initially intended to only kill the Alliance's members and quash their resistance, it fed off light-aspected aether, which was at a zenith for somewhat-related reasons. The poison multiplied and spread, slaughtering not only Eorzeans but toppling the Empire as well, and coming as close to erasing civilization as is possible without doing so fully.
[She relates this story calmly and without excess emotion, as if she were explaining what she had for dinner the night before.]
A man of great genius sought to undo this calamity through the only means he could conceive of: sending a person through time and space to prevent Black Rose from emerging, or at the very least, from deriving such uncontained power through the light. He and his team combined the spatial manipulation of the extraterrestrial Omega and the temporal manipulation of the great primal Alexander to send a sole inhabitant of the Crystal Tower, an Allagan creation that contained elements of both, to the past.
I speak often of timelines splitting, and that event is why. Their actions split their timeline, as they knew it would. Their own cursed existence would not end, but by their choices, they allowed a new and greater timeline to calve off. That is the one I hail from. And that story contains your answer; to change the past so dramatically is not to change the future that has been set, but to create a new one alongside the old.