Quote Originally Posted by MiniPrinny View Post
Technically, yes. The fifth group would be the people who help the Warrior of Light slay various enemies such as the primals.
In the lore book there is more than one text where it hints that we often (if not all of the time) fight alone. Especially primals like Ravanna or Thordan show this. I take those little sentences about gathering other adventurers more as a ingame way of saying that this is group content. A lot of it would not make sense otherwise. (How big is the chance that you find another bunch of good adventurers with echos to fight Ifrit? At that time we did not know about tempering. Why would the beast tribe not notice that we suddenly have more people with us? Why would we not just call for reinforcement if we are able to move freely? Why would they not chain us up too? All of this only truly makes sense if escape lake was only there for ingame reasons. Otherwise if you cant beat Ifrit you would never be able to leave.) If we have so many good adventurers as lore friends, why did we need to find NPCs adventurers that will help us with steps of faith? Did we leave all of our friends behind in castrum since we only escaped with Thancred? Why are we the only one that get the glory if we always have others with us at the primals? And more.

I really believe that we are truly alone most of the time. (Would be kinda lame to beat one single human like boss with 3-7 other people)