User blog comment:Lyncstar/Lostbelt 4 Speculation:/@comment-32751919-20181202032717/@comment-4802891-20181204081331

It has to be in the future Hikaru, or else mentioning the date would be arbitrary. But:

@Valeth: What you are saying is, History changed because rulers take action after the elephant in the room was spotted, and not because the elephant in the room was spotted? Ok then! I guess if the dinosaurs weren't erradicated, nothing would have changed: mammalians would have happened, Human History would have happened, and dinosaurs would just "not be there" despite never being erradicated.

That's exactly what you are suggesting by saying the date of the event doesn't matter. Without these big turning points, none of the kings would have taken the measures they took to save their world. It's not a simple Route A and Route B, it's a different game set in the same metaverse.

The main issue for LB4 is that the world is frozen over. However, it's safe to assume the Mooncell is involved. That's why this Lostbelt is so mysterious. Can the Lostbelt involves Dwapara Yuga overstaying its welcome or some losers becoming winners? Sure it could, but that would be due to a time loop, not because "the big thing" happened somewhere in the past. If it's as simple as other Lostbelts before it, there would be no reasons to mention a cryptic date, the notion of epoch and the name "Cycle of Creation and Destruction".