[SPOILERS for EW main story through zone 5 and for the fishing questline] This is less fridge horror and more fridge suspicion.

So in the fishing quests, as with other gather/crafter lines, you go to Elpis to get a quest item

You know just like sure I can fetch something. from before the end of days.

(watch the wol flex on nerds)

The questgiver, who you are helping with his dissertation, is like "but how will you...you know what, we can talk about it later." HOWEVER, when you come back, one of the side characters, a professor close to retirement, is like "oh yeah, of course time travel is a thing. the forum knows but doesn't talk about it."

now maybe this just means someone told the forum about g'raha's shenanigans

notably the questgiver knows about the alexander stuff but also knows it failed

but given the OTHER shit that goes on 5hat only the forum knows about im just like /squints

also I keep thinking about the nonzero probability that if a Sharlayan prior to Alisaie discovered a cure for tempering, they wouldn't have shared it