Quote Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer View Post
Unukalhai is almost guaranteed to be the questgiver and, let's face it, pretty name or no, everything Unukalhai is absolutely related to the MSQ.

Beyond that -

I believe that, for now the Triad will not required of you to progress in the MSQ, but will eventually become such. So, for now it's optional (since again, they're almost flat out saying Unukalhai is your questgiver) but it will eventually be an arc that is required to finish 3.X. Kind of like Ifrit/Garuda/Titan HM in 2.X, with Extreme mode still its own thing.

SE has stated in the past that they want to do multiple stories in parallel for 3.X and I believe this is one of their efforts to do so.
Aww, for a sec I though you meant branching stories, because that. would be. the shit. X)