What if…
… we will soon use the fractals to go back in time to blow up the Thaumanova Reactor ourselves, releasing the Elder Dragons’ magic upon this world…
… because if we didn’t…
the alternate consequence of the Thaumanova Reactor succeeding would have been a world that harnessed its energy and developed magitech / steampunk technology…
… resulting in a particular Mysterious Stranger who would have conquered that world as Grand High Sovereign of a Conclave (an alliance of all races for villainy?)
And might we just look this particular Mysterious Stranger in the face during the (soon-to-come?) Battle for Divinity’s Reach and find out that it is ourselves…
*chants PERSONAL Nemesis*