How The Time Travel Works In-Game: A Meta Post (written by request)

[crantz]

Disclaimer: Don't worry if this doesn't quite jive or make sense to you, it's all purely academic to explain how it's working backstage. Just keep playing how you have. No character doubles will come into play without permission from a player.

Potted version:

'You all come from your own timeline and nothing done in the past will affect you. As well, you may be existing concurrently with the version of you that was already here.'

On the nature of the timestream in this game:

As you've seen, with the death of Eol, the future of Gondolin has definitely been changed. What does this mean for characters? Will Elladan cease to exist if Luthien never meets Beren, or Idril marries Gelgannel instead?

What does it mean about people from two different but nearly identical timelines co-existing like Idis and Theodred?

What about people like Daeron/Luthien/All the Feanorians being around while they should also be existing elsewhere?

Well, I like seeing the characters speculate, so don't let them see this entry.

( The mechanics and a graph )