Talk:The Second Age Server/@comment-29021580-20160725013718/@comment-29095449-20160727213752

Possibly never. Just because we are set in SA1600, it doesn't mean the time of Ar-Pharazôn will ever come. Everything can happen, who knows - maybe Númenor decides to say "screw the elves" and never intervene. Maybe Mordor gets hit by a giant meteor and Arda gets destroyed. Every single change can lead to a whole new result in the future, and with Elrodan as King of Númenor instead of Tar-Telperiën, the timeline is already changed. Maybe Númenor turns into a faction that wants to invade the Valar, maybe it turns out the quite opposite due to all the new actions made by people on the server. Even every single action done by you, Sauron, leads to new results unless you follow the EXACT moves of Sauron in the books, and even then it would require everyone on the server to do the same.

So long story short - from day one of the server, new things can happen. Maybe Sauron never gets beaten, maybe he gets destroyed on day two, maybe Númenor suddenly gets destroyed due to a plague and maybe Ar-Pharazôn never becomes a thing. Maybe Ar-Pharazôn becomes a thing, but not like in the books, but instead an elf-loving King who loves singing?

One simple change in history can have huge impact in the future. That's a very common theory in science actually. If someone should one day travel back in time and step on something as simple as a butterfly and then go back to the future, everything in the future could actually be totally changed. Humanity might not even exist anymore for some reason. The very same thing would apply on the timeline of the server.

Hope this explains a bit as well as on why time-travel to the past should be illegal.

~mikkelkagen