User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-3965848-20180420163959/@comment-3965848-20180420200702

@Sbh1fr 1) That's called a Bootstrap Paradox, where something goes back in time to cause itself to happen, therefore has no origin. 2) If that happens, the future they came from would result in being from an alternate future, though Azazel would take at least some precaution into avoinding that war, so it's likely an alternate timeline known the less.