I didn't say they weren't dead, I said we may not be done with them. Ysayle has the whole Chosen of Hydaelyn thing going on. Haurchefant is dead for sure but we don't know where his body is (It's NOT the memorial near Dragonhead) and he could come back via Ascian possession or by his big dumb family Primal-ing him back since we haven't seen Unicorn/Ixion/Monoceros/Shadhavar whatever yet. And it debuted alongside Bismarck and the Warring Triad in the original games. Either way he's dead and it's just some aberration in his place.
I mean.
His body is MIA and if you go back to the Fortemps household in Ishgard after the MSQ there is NOBODY there from his family, just two servants, Tataru and Alphinaud. Where...where is the family? They're just at a funeral in mourning right? They're not collecting crystals or something? I mean those brothers were idiots and the father was pretty broken up.... Game.... Hey, hey, game, come back...