Weren't there like..hundreds in the 2.0 credits?
Or were those just Zodiark's followers and not Ascian-related?

I'll wait until 3.2 story to see what Elidibus is up to, but even if he [spoiler] runs around in white instead of black robes and plays best buddies with Urianger [spoiler end] I wouldn't count on him being "good" as in having somewhat similar goals to our own.

My take on the WoD party is that they were one of those previous WoL teams that were mentioned by several NPCs. Something about that there are always WoLs during the dark eras. If they were there during the last catastrophe and asleep on the moon since then, I think the Ascian they killed has long been replaced by a new one.