Just one man’s opinion, but thought it was worth sharing my theory for DE’s story and ending.

Obviously, the Two Timelines will be a key gameplay/story element, in terms of how it relates to the LiS 1 ending, I feel like Max will start in whichever timeline you picked for the LiS 1 ending, and then the alternate timeline she shifts into to save Safi will be the other ending. So if you chose Bae in LiS 1, you will shift into the Bay timeline which is the one where Safi lives, or vice versa.

I seem to recall one of the promotional videos suggesting one of Max’s aims would be to merge the two timelines, my theory is that one of the potential endings is for Max to use her powers to merge the two timelines and thus saving Chloe and Arcadia Bay at the same time, and likely Safi too, but this would have a big consequence, likely killing Max. Having Max make this ultimate sacrifice to reunite Chloe with her family, and/or bring back everyone in Arcadia Bay could be a very interesting route to take for one of this game’s endings. What do you guys think?

Side note, just throwing my 2 cents in to this discussion too, my theory as to why Max and Chloe aren’t together in the Bae ending; the game’s official synopsis says that Max hasn’t used her powers for years, but does so when she feels Safi is in danger. We may have a situation where Max always feels compelled to use her powers to protect the people she loves, and would often use her powers around Chloe to help her, even if she didnt mean to, just as an instinct, and there would always be consequences, maybe not on the scale of Arcadia Bay, but smaller disasters, so eventually, Max decided to move away and try and live a reclusive life in order to stop herself using her powers… just a thought.