Story unravelled (sorry SE) (Spoiler: Patch 6.2 - 7.0)

[Cleretic]

On the contrary, that seems to be deliberately how they work. Leave plot threads hanging here so they can be picked up and woven into a connecting story later, possibly years down the track.

It's only a problem if they forget to come back to it until the story has shifted so much it doesn't make sense any more.

It has in fact been actually stated in interviews that this is how they work. Not entirely willingly mind you, they were basically forced down this road with the 1.0/ARR situation, but at the same time it's also basically the only feasible way to write a long-term story like this anyway, so they would've gotten into this sooner or later.

Fortunately for everyone involved, they happen to be quite good at it.

[Tetsujin13]

It has in fact been actually stated in interviews that this is how they work. Not entirely willingly mind you, they were basically forced down this road with the 1.0/ARR situation, but at the same time it's also basically the only feasible way to write a long-term story like this anyway, so they would've gotten into this sooner or later.

Fortunately for everyone involved, they happen to be quite good at it.

One thing I'm also curious about is Lahabrea in ARR.
There he has his entire mask, meaning he must have rejoined with his other half from Pandæmonium, this was pointed out in Bellular's latest vid. Which leads to the question, was he able to confront his own feelings and ideals to overcome his other half?

I expect the answer to be no.

So I really hope that this is the way they go.

That they found out how to rejoin the reflections (after failure of the Thirteenth), and that to do it, they needed a presence in all reflections that could help weaken the barrier between the reflections and the source through calamities.

But I don't actually think the Twelve actually are on team with the Ascians. So I think the ways the Ascians have "caused" calamities is by being the ones in the shadows puppeteering situations that forces the Twelve to react.

So maby the Twelve are the good half of the Convocation, while the bad half of the convocation are the Ascians.