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[Gamer3427]

To put it more succinctly, Aymeric's timely avoidance of the climax could just be a mild deus ex machina to avoid dealing with a storytelling complication that honestly doesn't need to be dealt with at all.

(I apologize for being such a spoilsport. :P )

I agree that that is most likely the case, and there is no need to apologize. I was simply sharing my interpretation of what it could mean story wise. SE has always been a little hit and miss with such things. Sometimes they plan stuff out so far in advance that it almost makes too much sense, and other times they have to come up with a deus ex machina excuse to prevent a minor aspect they hadn't really thought through from destroying their whole plotline.....