Quote Originally Posted by XanderOlivieri View Post
As for some reasoning with what ever guild being the base class, Thancred's base class will change from GLD to what ever the new class is. All of the members of the Scions are in the base classes. Yda is a Pugilist, Papalymo is a Thaumaturge, Ysholt'a is a Conjurer, Urganeir is an Arcanist. .
Incorrect. Thancred even says that he is a Bard when you talk to him in the new hideout before the 2.2 quests were added. He was not a GLD at all and was instead masquerading as a Bard.

Also do you have a link to that live letter? I thought he said he agreed the game needed a scout class, but I don't remember him specifically using thief as a base for ninja. Even still that was him spit balling anyway and it isn't really something we can base our assumptions on.