RED update thoughts and feedback

I don't know where to post this but this got me out off guard, since I came back I've been doing the amnesiac temple keeper quest and now that I finished it and heard his name and saw his face and after reading he is from ellin it makes me wonder how did the player end up in that dark place at the start of the new storyline and what does that have to do with ellin, also how come tess knew who I was?

This makes no sense, I need to do the ellin quests asap now!!

unless they changed them the ellin quest explane pretty much nothing on why you look like kao