Quote Originally Posted by Cassar View Post
it's a little weird how it appeared right after we came back from defeating Hephaistos....
The more likely trigger is whatever Claudien discovered in Azys Lla. (I'm not really sure why we haven't been sent there to check if anything obvious has happened.)

Perhaps it's been hidden in a pocket dimension all this time and drawn out by some kind of signal from the crystal.


Quote Originally Posted by Cassar View Post
I also say this because, based on how time travel was established in this world, it shouldn't be possible to change the present by actions done in the past, doing that should create a time branch like it did with G'raha. I say should because the writers could always change that and mess everything up, which I hope they don't.
It's still entirely possible for it to involve time travel without breaking the rules, if the Aitiascope hasn't changed to house Pandæmonium all along, but rather the facility itself was transported through time – departing some time after where we left it and arriving in its new location just now, potentially drawn to this particular temporal point by whatever happened with Claudien.