The Wyrmking vs. Thordan

[Anonymoose]

So far, SE hasn't really been big on the "pretend it happened before now" thing, carefully wording even the Ishgardian quests to make sense regardless of whether they're rude to you because Ishgard's closed, or rude to you because "Just because we're open now doesn't mean we like adventurers! Get off my snow!"

It's entirely possible that the two scenarios will remain mostly discrete; it might not matter if you wrap up Alexander and do most of 4.0 content before you decide, "Sure, whatever, let's grab Alisaie and go see what the truth of the Calamity was." If they do decide to bring any of that back, including Bahamut, they just need to make the clearing of the Coils a prerequisite.

Take, for instance, Kam'lanaut and Eald'narche of Final Fantasy XI. In order to start Rise of the Zilart, you had to be past the "main scenario" mission where you meet the leader of Jeuno, since he was about to be revealed as the FFXI version of an Allagan and stabbed in the face. He would make a comeback at the end of Chains of Promathia, so in order to finish Chains of Promathia, you also had to have finished Rise of the Zilart.

Discrete isolation v. progression flags are SE's usual M.O. for the bubble expanding for time passage without bursting due to time movement.

One or the other will likely end up happening for the Coils, imho. (That or time travel, again, Wings of the Goddess.)