Dragoon Question (spoilers)

[Anonymoose]

I haven't confirmed for myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but I assume that it's just awkward and the continuity is broken and it is what it is, lol.

SE does their best to manage consistency in the lore, but continuity goes right out the window sometimes if you do the content out of order. There were some hints that PATCH = CONTINUITY in the Coil / Crystal Tower story arcs, but it became undeniable after the Nanamo / Culinarian overlap.

Some discussions and past interviews have more or less spelled out that there was an internal discussion at SE that amounted to: "Do we spend this time and these resources to go back and ensure that all old content can be made to mesh if you do it after new content, or do we just ask people to understand that the patch order is the story order and use all those resources on new content?" and new content took priority.

Before 2.55, I didn't expect at all that the team would willingly allow things that would drag you out of the game world that blatantly, but their reasoning can hardly be denied. If a not-insubstantial amount of new content would need to be sacrificed to retrofit old quests to new developments, it's not absurd to ask that we just understand that - in the instance of your question here - that Estinien was "dragonized" during Patch 3.00, but DRG30 takes place in Patch 2.00's sector of the time arc.