Not only that, but the world got pretty roughed up during the whole, uh, apocalypse thing. So that can account for some of the map changes too. You stuck around after everything was over, right? Didn't return to your home world? Were things that messed up that people'd lose all track of the past?

Maybe it ain't the future, but, well, a future? There's the whole multiverse thing, where people were comin' to Crystrallis from, like, different timelines and alternate futures of other people. Might be something like that. This stuff is real nerve-wracking.