>>49906929Darkrai states he sabotaged the tower in some manner leading to its collapse (probably the giant vortex floating overhead), but the Time Gears themselves have been in the lakes for generations. If his plan was to ruin the tower just by stealing the gears, then why the hell are they being kept safe at Uxie's crib? Why does time in Treeshroud Forest only move when a stolen Time Gear is there? No way did Darkrai actually touch the Time Gears from those locations.
>if they were just put there by Darkrai recently then it makes no sense for there to be known lore about themYeah, exactly. You're finding the holes in your own headcanon. The possibilities are that Dialga was loaning out Time Gears (either spares or just five of the tower's twelve) or Darkrai had such a galaxy brain that he took the gears hundreds of years ago and brainwashed the entire Lake Trio into making sure they were never returned to the tower.
