Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-744426-20150730190358/@comment-26283405-20150730195718

I would agree that time might flow differently in different places, so if Athetos left Sudra to "go upstream" or to the advanced civilization past Sudra, then time may have flown differently there. However, unless we believe Ophelia's story at face value (about fetching Trace from Earth), I see no reason to presume backwards timetravel to be possible.

However, one thing that seems overlooked by many, is the possibility that the Athethos faced at the end of the game is not the original Trace / Athethos.

Two different scenarios: Athetos could have kept cloning himself from an earlier timeprint, creating a new clone every 20 years or so while maybe working on bringing technology back to earth...

Or: "Reviving" Athetos maybe was the Rusalki's Plan A. They release a scientist who wishes to travel away from Sudra, hope that he deactivates the Breach Attractor, so that they can flee Sudra. Only that something went wrong, the pathogen got released, the Rusalki failed "to control him" and turned on each other...

oh speculation, how fickle art thou