Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32644080-20181104032203

Here's how I think that the Ancient One played into the events of Avengers: infinity War. Before she died, she told Doctor Strange that she had been peering through time, preventing countless terrible furtures, and knew the exact moment of her death. What if she died intentionally. Idk why she would do that, but I have a reason. If she decided to stay alive, then that would require her defeating Kaecilius once again. However, Karl Mordo implied that them tampering with the Eye of Agamotto would result in neverending consequences, stating that "the bill would come due". Again, she said that she peered through time, but never gave an extent as to how much she peered through time. In Infinity War, Doctor Strange had the ability to see the outcome of 14,000,006 events with Thanos and he noted that there would be only 1 instance in which they would defeat the Mad Titan. It would make sense that the Ancient One peered through time beyond her imminent death, as she noted that Doctor Strange and Karl Mordo would have to join forces to stop Dormmammu. If she saw an outcome where she was not killed by Kaecilius, then it is possible that the outcome she saw would still result in Thanos ultimately gaining all six Infinity Stones and wiping out half the universe. What if somehow her dying would set events in place, which would lead to the Avengers defeating Thanos. The reason why her being alive on Earth would be indirectly allow Thanos to accomplish his goal is because she divulged to Strange that for centuries she had been stealing power from the Dark Dimension in an effort to protect the world from mystical threats. Since her connection with the Dark Dimenstion is strong, it is still unknown if Dormmammu could possess her or possibly overtake her.

Here's my second reason; if the Ancient One knew about Thanos's threat, she would have gone to great measures to make sure that he would never get his hands on over the Time Stone, but at the same time, she was in conflict with Kaecilius, who attempted to merge Earth with the Dark Dimension. She possibly deemed that Dormmammu was a greater threat than Thanos was. If Doctor Strange was able to look into the future, then she was. Since there were two Infintiy Stones on Earth, the Mind Stone and the Time Stone, Dormmammu's threat of merging Earth with the Dark Dimension would possibly result in the Infinity Stones' destruction, as Thor noted in Infinity War how he believed that the Tesseract was destroyed during Ragnarok. This would thus end Thanos's hopes of eliminating half the universe. But it is possible that the Ancient One saw two separate futures in which both Dormmammu and Thanos are ultimately defeated. The Ancient One did in fact see that she would die during her conflict with Kaecilius, but Doctor Strange realized that the Avengers had one chance to triumph over Thanos.  