Quote Originally Posted by myahele View Post
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This has been a thing in FF14 ARR since 2.0 though.

A lot of side story can easily be missed if players do not check up on what is happening in the Scion's base as they progress through the Main Storyline. Heck through 2.0, that archer from Edda's group joined the Scion during 2.0 but most players would not know about that because they never bothered to check on the Scion's base and talked to the NPCs.

Not to mention the side-story covering Hoary Boulder and Coultenet that has been going on through 2.X era in the Rising Stone. Most people probably didn't even cared about Hoary Boulder and Coultenet's little misadventures happening as NPC banters until SE decided to finally put them in a Main Story Quest.