KoBeWi
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Yea, but at the same time, Tessen (aka Cursed Priestess) recognizes you on your first visit in present Tai Ming. This implies that the above time rules doesn't apply to everything and the events of Tai Ming have "happened" when you get there. There can be 2 explanations for this:I don't think that's the case. Because the monkeys are evidence that Grindea's time travel isn't a set line, time can be changed. In the present you can see monkey bones in the lab if you go there first, but after going into the past and letting them free there are monkeys everywhere.
Zhamla wouldn't have gotten his crown without us going through Puzzle World and grabbing it. It would've just remained buried.
1) A "set" timeline applies to everything directly related to Tai Ming accident. Seems like it's connected with Zhamla turning evil and evacuation mentioned in Phasing Facility logs. The related things became cursed in the process, that includes priestess Tessen and Zhamla's Crown, and that makes them unable to be changed. Fun fact is that there's an alternate description existing in translation files for Miki's ball: "You never gave it back... you monster.". It's called "MikiBallCursedDescription". It doesn't seem to appear in game, so we can only speculate that ball became somehow cursed and it can never be returned.
2) Devs didn't really think about this. That's the case with most time-travelling stories. Authors just go full "it's time travel so we can do anything", often contradicting their own rules. However, since SoG is an early access game, devs can put the "curse explanation" or whatever, after reading this post, and pretend nothing happened.
So, I think that this IS the crown, but at the time when you unbury it, it's not cursed yet. Bag knows more than he tells. He knows that we are looking for the crown and seeing it, he thinks this might be the Artifact. But it's not the Artifact yet, so he dismisses it.Bag does seem to recognize the crown, though, saying something like "Is that...?", but then dismisses it. So maybe it's just a replica.
Now, he then tells something about destiny and how one has to follow their path (that's in Tessen's house). He then says something like "nevermind, I'm just talking too much". Bag was in Tai Ming 1000 years ago, he surely knows what happened to the town and Zhamla. But he doesn't tell this. Maybe he knows that this can't be changed, so he can't tell everything to not meddle in history. Like, if he told you that this toy crown will become Artifact, you could just not give it to Zhamla, then it would never became cursed, probably changing the history of the whole world. That can be why he told it's just a toy.
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