That something targeted someone.
Azief just never thought that the target would be Paulette.
Azief thought that if there is something that ancient and primordial, it would targeted him.
He himself after all of the experience he went through, he himself might even though like he is some kind of a main character in a novel or something.
But everyone have adventures and Jean also could be considered a main character if you look at his life.
But the more he thinks about that incident, the more he felt something wrong about it.
It is like someone is playing Etherna chess. A chess game that spans timelines, spans lifetimes, spans all kinds of calculations.
Someone might be scheming in the background
The ring connected him with the fate of the Etherna and ancient things and primordial thing would be attracted to him.
That is the kind of fate and destiny he have the moment he was bonded with something Etherna.