Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

In WotG storyline, we learn that the timeline we travel from is actually not how things were meant to progress during and after the Crystal War. At some point, Altana intervenes to start an alternative timeline where the war has been won. In the "real" timeline, Lilith (Lilisette) makes a pact with Odin, somehow manages to open a way into Walk of Echoes and travels back in time from that Vana'diel where the war was lost to the time during the war to make sure that "her" timeline continue to exist despite that Vana'diel is currently in ruins in that timeline. She oviously fails and Lilisette accepts taking the place of her future self to lead her people to a brighter future. Atomos starts devouring Lilith's timeline, but then unexpectedly starts devouring the timeline we came from as well. My interpretation is that Lilith's timeline is no more legit and the one we came from is fake anyway. After all, it does say something in the lines of one can't be treated sepearately from the other while trying to devour both. Then it gets overloaded and starts puking all the memories and time it had devoured.

At this point, the war still wages on. I don't remember whether they added the Shadow Lord fight campaign OP after the story was completed, but the fact that we can fight and defeat him, even if not as a part of the main storyline, I believe it is safe to assume that the "real" future is free to be changed (whether Altana intervened once more or not) and our timeline becomes the legit one in case Shadow Lord is defeated. So the ending of the story is kind of left to player's imagination.

I think the player wakes up in the Reisenjima crystal... plane or w/e and is just returned to the world by some divine power, most likely Altana. The player isn't in godhood anymore and so I assume he mustn't have left returned on his/her own.

When it shows all the "bad guys" you've killed, it includes Razfad, or whatever the Empress' brother's name was. I might be wrong, but I thought he wound up surviving/coming back if you fought Alexander a second time. I remember the cutscene saying something about him resting in his chambers or something. Am I wrong?

I have been wondering about that too. In the cutscene after the Alexander fight in the main story, he says he won't let those deities destroy Aht Urghan and bids Nashmeira farewell (in a dream of sorts after Nashmeira is hit by a beam of light by Alexander). That scene implies that he sacrifices himself to stop Alexander (or maybe he would die inside the host machine regardless). I don't remember anything about the Alexander avatar quest cutscenes though.