Quote Originally Posted by Turethir View Post
If one of them were to die in 5.5, I'd imagine the change they're making would be to either remove that character from the quest or replace them with somebody else, therefore creating no paradoxes even if that happens (hence it wouldn't matter if they did it after 5.5 - it wouldn't contain any characters who'd died). It just depends on what they're doing, and as we have no info on that at the moment it's hard to know
This is most likely what will come to pass. The quest, although Arenvald and Fordola are taking most of the spotlight, is really about the summoners fighting the continued primal threat in Eoreza. A character from an earlier summoner quest can fill you in and you can move on to the end of the quest without Fordola or Arenvald.