Yes... you totally need to use the Ancient Artifact to see a mundane event in the past. This is totally a unique circumstance and that sort of power is not at all common, let alone taught in schools.
I'm ready for a month of Rillian just slapping folks upside the head for dithering when the world is ending. Or maybe just getting Punchy to work-over Dominic for awhile; it's not like he's even
using those testicles.