And yet we know that normal travel for non teleporting able npcs it takes a day or two if you're not on a fast ship to go from Eorzea to Kugane. We don't know at the moment how long this break between the fighting is supposed to be taking and we won't til March. So, going with the info we have now along with having no special lines to indicate the first half of fighting has happened it doesn't make sense to have this happen during the break in the fighting.

It flows better if it happens before the msq. The only thing I have a hard time placing is the four lords part which I guess could happen during the break in the fighting.