Quote Originally Posted by Jaywalker View Post
I think there's some evidence of this.
I think so, too. I think around the time Nanamo "died" and Estinien joined the MSQ, they just accepted that trying to make excuses for doing things out of order wasn't going to work aside from the occasional spoiler-preventing text-swap flag. Forget Zombie Nanamo showing up to dinner if you do the LV50 CUL quest between 2.5 and 3.0 content, Estinien can be, at the same time, a guy in blue armor who's struggling to resist the Eye so he can kill Nidhogg (DRG LV30-50), and also a guy in red armor who is currently shaped like a shade of Nidhogg, who is already dead.

It's passive confirmation that that tier of the hierarchy exists loosely in practice, but not having a firm hand was a major contributing factor to the Darnus debacle, lol.