Quote Originally Posted by EdwinLi View Post
The development team has cover this issue before with certain side stories (though hard to remember which one due to how many there are now) that have effect on the story or side story in some way due to being set before that specific point in the story. It was mostly they let the event play out the same but with the exception that WoL was not involved in that side story.
This isn't what they do.

If the character is much the same at the start and end of the earlier story, and current events don't rely on it happening, then they can participate in later stories and they'll just gloss over it and not talk about whether it happened or not. Occasionally it will be highlighted as not happening, like Alisaie at level 60 will specifically say that your business at the Binding Coil was left half-finished even though the entirety of Coil happens at level 50 if you've done it.

If you didn't do it yourself, anything that changes as the consequence of a side story hasn't happened yet.