History Headscratchers / BravelyDefault

** Specifically, the timelines would have diverged completely when Alternis Dim steals your airship near Ancheim and encounters Ringabel in the process. The fact that you have Alternis / Ringabel's diary would have also caused substantial divergence on its own, since it's implied the characters are following it even if it's rarely discussed.

** Specifically, the timelines would have diverged completely when Alternis Dim steals your airship near Ancheim and encounters Ringabel in the process.

** Using one of the AR cards shows Tiz dying after climbing out of the Great Chasm, only to absorb a bright light drifting down. Shortly after, you start controlling him and he's perfectly fine. In other words, Tiz lives, saves the world, falls in love, and makes all of these friends and allies across the world... [[HeartwarmingMoments because of you.]]

* In all loops you visit, Lord [=DeRosso=] has the painting of their encounter with the Angel. Does that means more than one of Anges visited a different alternate world?

[[folder:Eternian Crystal plan.]]

** The vestals awaken the crystals by pulling their power from the next world in the cycle, that's what the prayers do, so the Duchy is trying to find a way to awaken them without putting a new link in the chain, which they are aware of by Yulyanna and Derosso.

** It's fairly clear from early on that while the Eternian Forces actions are terrible, that there is something else going on. Edea's black-and-white view is dangerous because it prevents her from thinking about the bigger picture. On the face of it, this seems to be a shallow justification for war when we see Kamiizumi involved in Eisenberg's civil war, but further investigation reveals that while their methods are indeed abhorrent their goals are good ones. Only when Edea discovers the reality of the situation, and the more reasonable motivations of at least some of the characters (primarily Braev and Kamiizumi) is she able to mitigate the damage done by the whole mess. It doesn't justify the Duchy's actions, but the party do what they can, at least somewhat. Edea ultimately avoids making the same mistakes as her father, whose similar attitude leads him in multiple realities to crush Crystalism without considering the consequences. Not only does this ruthlessly punish innocent people (he seems to have utterly ignored Yulyana and DeRosso), but it's counter-productive in terms of Braev's actual goals; obtaining ''either'' ending requires a Vestal with knowledge of the Crystals.

** Annoyingly, it is not. The characters act terribly surprised, and Tiz's lines about no-one foreseeing Airy's treachery ''directly contradict'' both what we learnt several chapters ago (Main Scenario, not sub- ones). I wonder if this was done in case anyone had gone straight to the true ending without triggering the false one. But even then, doing so would have ''required'' that they witnessed the events surrounding Ringabel's memories and Yulyana's exposition (if not DeRosso's which was oddly relagated to a sub-scenario). Chronologically, they knew enough to at the ''very least'' be suspicious, even if they refrain from accusing Airy outright (indeed, Ringabel seems to be struggling with having to go through the Holy Pillar time and again). The characters' lack of understanding at the ending is rather confusing; the information was there, we had their reactions (many times, if we include the false ending) it's as though the writers decided to ignore all of it when it came to the game's climax.

[[folder:DeRosso's and Yulyana's Immortality]]

** The Vampire sidequest literally tells you how Yulyana gained immortality - he was already extremely old but made a potion using old Orthodoxy document that would give himself immortality (or at least keep him from aging, I believe the game implies he can be killed with force). As far as DeRosso himself, the implication is that he used Ouroboros' power to reach his younger self and to give himself immortality.

** That conflicts with the fact that not only did he let her join the Sky Knights, whose history you claim he wanted to hide from her, but her first assignment was to help Ominas Crowe with arson and kidnapping.

** It's also possible she may have just not put the pieces together. Their personalities are totally different and they talk in a different way (Ringabel starts to talk stilted like him a bit when he first regains his memory, then reverts to his smoother way of talking). It's like seeing someone who looks just like someone you know, especially when you believe that there's no chance for it to actually be them. You just think something like 'The look just like X, wow!' and dismiss it. It probably wasn't until seeing them side by side that Edea realised that they didn't just look similar, they were identical.

** The vestals awaken the crystals by pulling their power from the next world in the cycle, that's what the prayers do, so theDuchy is trying to find a way to awaken them without putting a new link in the chain, which they are aware of by Yulyanna and Derosso.

** It's possible to destroy the crystal as soon as you hit world two, so they had to make the scene fit in case such a descision was made.

* Airy makes it clear that there's been countless cycles of the party activating the crystals and bringing about the Pillar, so what made the cycle the game starts with stand out? How did things start going differently? The only 2 differences I can see is that it's apparently the first cycle where Ringabel joined the group but he didn't really do or say anything to alter their course. The second is that this is apparently when the Celestial Being started being involved in "guiding" the party. But why so late in the plan where there's literally JUST a few more cycles to go? Why not get involved much sooner?

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