Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
Story events in content outside of the main scenario quests take place in a time bubble. In other words if you are doing content that was introduced in 2.0 then the world state within that content will be regarded as though it were still 2.0. This is a necessity unfortunately as the alternative would be to either constantly update all side content to match new story developments (which would take a lot of additional development time) or have certain characters be 'safe' from harm due to their presence in other content.

I would also advise you to progress through the 3.0 main scenario...

SE was better then this in FFXI.
In FFXI there was a quest that had a Tarutaru or cardian
If you did that mission that the tarutaru died in then it was a different NPC in the CS.