The player character travels through time and has knowledge about the future, but are our actions changing it, or is the future we saw the consequence of our actions?
For example, we release Zerrick from a trap and help him become the leader of a bandit organization, during the Divine Era. This puts him in a good position to become the Emperor’s Spymaster in the Imperial Era, in which we kill him.
We talk to Captain Harton in the Divine Era and shake his faith in the gods, which could push him into becoming the Emperor’s servant, and so turn into the Imperial Era’s Admiral Harton, who we also kill.
It also feels heavily implied that, thanks to our actions, Grael will eventually become the Immortal Emperor, keeping the characters we brought to him as his partners (and keeping Yulia as his High Priestess).
So can we actually change the future? Or are our characters’ actions just creating the future we have seen?
We don’t directly manipulate the story with our actions (or dialogue choices), it’s all just part of the holistic story.
The Ruined Future is a consequence of our actions and the inevitable future that Orobyss has devised.
The reason time seems woven together so neatly is because it is. Orobyss is ensuring the universe returns to Void and nothingness. He wants ruin wrought upon the land that Eterra created.
With the Epoch, we as the Traveler do have the potential to change the past, to fight Orobyss and to prevent the Ruined future. But…not until EHG comes out with chapters 10-12
The story is currently incomplete! I’m covering all the lore on my channel as I love time travel, stop by if interested <3
