User blog comment:Inept Wiki User/Cosmos in the Lostbelt: Post-Prologue, Pre-Anastasia Information & Speculation/@comment-34352073-20180405204219

Just a theory or something I happened to come up with, but I figured I'd make a note of it regardless. There might be some spoilers, but I've tried to avoid them.

Since the inhabitants of the Anastasia Lostbelt claim that the era they're living in is 2018, it seems to me that Cosmos in the Lostbelt isn't dealing with time travel at all, despite the dates mentioned in every Lostbelt. Rather, those dates signify when the Lostbelt timeline diverged from the main timeline. The Lostbelts, then, would be the areas (most) affected by whatever change in history is involved, superimposed on the newly "blank slate" Earth. A minor difference, sure, but one I wanted to make note of.

Related to this, I have some guesses as to what some of the Lostbelts (and their changes) might contain/entail:

2. Gotterdamerung might be a timeline where the Twilight of the Gods never occurred, and thus the Norse Gods at least are still around. As to how this might've happened, it could be that the gods managed to beat their enemies back, or that the entire conflict somehow simmered down into a cold war of sorts.

3. My first guess would be that Qin Shi Huang got that immortality that he wanted. Thus, he would've ruled China, the mightiest empire in the world at the time, ever since then.

4. ??? I'm not that well versed when it comes to Hindu myths, unfortunately, so no idea what exactly could've gone wrong.

5. Since the date is tied to Velber's last appearance, and at least somewhere I've seen Velber's coming linked to the decline of the Age of the Gods, maybe that stuff is still running here?

6. Artoria's era or the time just before/after it. Maybe Artoria was never born here (or killed by someone, say, Morgan)? Maybe Camelot never fell (and perhaps Artoria retained Avalon and ruled ever since then)? Most likely the latter, if its called Round Table Territory. Camelot never falling would've certainly changed the history of the British Isles.

7. The BC timeline and the place apparently being Mesoamerica, that would probably mean the divergence had something to do with the Maya, since their civilization apparently got established around this time. I don't have the time at the moment to delve into the events of the era more deeply to find out any clues as to what caused the divergence. Apparently the Maya culture is still around in the modern day, at least.

Most of this is just treading old ground as far as speculation goes, but I at least found the revelation of the dates and their meaning significant enough to note here. Comments?