Rick wrote:So sometime during 349 and 1274 he abandoned his watching of the La Shiec breach to save the last descendant of his dead friend?
First, we don't know that Lutz was even watching the breach in the first place. He did research on it, but that doesn't mean he continued to monitor the breach after he concluded it could not be sealed. There would not have been much point to continuing to watching it. He knew a Dark Force was coming, but his experience with Dark Falz suggested it would work through others for a long time before physically manifesting itself. Watching the breach would have been looking in the wrong direction. Lutz needed to be aware of what was happening in the rest of Algo, so he could notice when things starting going bad in the society.
Second, Lutz left Palma to go into hiding in a region not controlled by Mother Brain. Essentially, to save himself and fellow Espers. According to the Compendium, the last of Alis' bloodline was already dead by then, so Lutz definitely didn't stop anything for them.
Side note: that's one reason I think Rolf is Alis' son. Alis' bloodline has to be reintroduced somehow after the royal family is wiped out. If Alis returns to Algo and has children again, that could explain the contradiction of her line ending and Rolf later being part of her line.
Back on topic: I think going into hiding on Dezoris was definitely a mistake on Lutz's part, but I can also see his reasoning. Mother Brain's influence was making people violent and lazy. They were forgetting the past and fighting among each other. Lutz knew knowledge of magic and the seal needed to be preserved. He did not know everything about the seal or Dark Force, but even what he did know would have been lost if he had not taken steps to keep himself and that knowledge alive.
As for Lutz saving Rolf from the space accident, let's not forget the full context. The accident was used as an excuse to ban space travel entirely, to cut off the planets from each other. It probably wasn't an accident at all, but rather a plot by Mother Brain. If Lutz was watching Mother Brain and trying to identify the forces behind her, it shouldn't be surprising that he might intervene in a plot or two, especially if he somehow sensed a member of Alis' supposedly dead family involved.
On the time issue... well, from Le Roof in PSIV we know that the seal was fluctuating at certain intervals ever since it was first formed, long before Lassic came along. When Lassic summoned Dark Falz, he did so between intervals and caused the seal to be weaker at the next fluctuation. That's why less than 1000 years pass between PSI and PSII: because Lassic wasn't working on the 1000 year schedule.
The Compendium confuses this issue and uses the 1000 year concept in two different ways. In the timeline section, it suggests Lassic started things and the next DF would be 1000 years after Lassic's summoning. In several other places, it supports Le Roof's version of the 1000 year cycle starting long before Lassic.
Rick wrote:It seems Lutz pulls a Rune PS IV moment there. Lutz finally admits he has no idea why someone is trying to destroy Algo even though he knows Dark Force (and what Dark Force tries to do) o.o. He also knows about Noah so.. that line is rather.. odd?
Lutz meant that he didn't know who had created Mother Brain. He knew about Noah and that Mother Brain and Dark Force would be there, but he didn't know about the Earthmen or their motivations. After all, Dark Falz and Lassic didn't actually try to obliterate a planet like the Earthmen had managed to do. Lassic was trying to rule, not completely destroy.
Rick wrote:Hell, if Chaz can beat 3 Dark Forces without Nei weapons, why was Rolf needed?
That's a good question, but let's save that for another topic.
Rune_Walsh wrote:That said, if PS2 Lutz is scatterbrained -- which isn't so far fetched to state -- then the premise that he "isn't" a relative of Rolf because he didn't say he is, is not a cogent argument standing.
Granted, the absence of the statement is not solid proof they aren't related. But yeah, it's all fun speculation.
I just really think that Lutz would have mentioned it. If they are related, then Lutz would be Rolf's
only living blood relative. That's a pretty big thing to leave out.