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Given that the Bureau of the Architect is constantly dealing with new creations, it's not unreasonable to think that older creations would be left unexamined by newcomers due to time constraints. It's not like a bureaucrat who signs on at a large depot or storehouse is going to be able to suddenly be able to account for everything that's ever been stored on the shelves there. They're too busy signing in triplicate the 800 concepts for new sharks and what not.

Through the course of this questline we also learn that the Convocation members are all specialists in different fields, so it's no surprise that an Emet-selch specialist doesn't know about a mysterious energy that almost no one has the means or desire to manipulate. Though it is a narrative surprise because he's a big deal to us, but it's ultimately an emotional conflation.

As for there being no way to contact the others who know about Dynamis... it's an idea that has no strength to stand under scrutiny. Elpis is a facility with rules and records. The Flower was created there, recorded there, and researched there. The names of the researchers would be in their records. The data on the flower would also be in their records. This takes place in the same expansion where our very scholarly compatriots have zero qualms about searching through a library containing more books than we can conceptualize, so Venat and our Ancient party shouldn't have qualms about attempting the same. The reality is that the narrative has to blinker itself and try to get us to pretend and believe with it that Hermes is all there is, so that the situation forced by the time loop appears even more inescapable. So it's, "For narrative purposes, we can't go into actual detail about the research methods, researchers, or specifics about Dynamis and its discovery. For narrative purposes we have to keep it vague, or this narrative comes apart at the seams." It's a weakness they could have easily dodged this by just having the lines from Hermes state that it's his personal discovery and the flower is his creation and he has yet to submit it to the bureau. Or something like that. Or that all his fellow Dynamis researchers gave themselves back to the star.

But the narrative didn't do that. It told us that there were other Dynamis researchers, but then didn't name them, and airplane spoon fed us lines about, "Only Hermes."