Azief, Katarina and Sofia love triangle dragged on for centuries as Azief wrestle with his own feelings.
Of course, this timeline, it is bit different while still have that same plot.
The meeting between Azief and Katarina happened earlier and Azief was not as dark as he was during the original timeline.
Many things have changed but the three people still tangled with each other. Love is also a form of destiny. And that is probably that is the destiny of three people.
If they were normal people, the matter might not have dragged on for centuries
The matter exacerbated as they become godlike figures, as each of their action affects things in the global and universal scale
Just look at Katarina and how she punished Annika. Or when she wanted to vent her anger and frozen an entire continent in her wrath.