Quote Originally Posted by Balipu View Post
The problem with Y'shtola and the Other Scions is that they are too powerful. Unless we face primals, they are much better at doing it than us. So we need them to go away to get tension. Plus we have lots of characters and not all of them are equally developed. And I don't mean tits. I mean character development. So far Alphinaud, Y'shtola and Thancred are the "main characters" with Alphie being the most developed. Alisaie is catching up to her brother slowly but surely. Papalymo is dead, Yugiri and Lyse don't really have much in terms of personality. And now we don't have any Scions for Gridania. I'm also pretty sure Gaius and Alisaie won't be the only ones going to Garlemaldd. We need room for new characters.
Are they? I mean they kick butt sure when given the chance but they never seem to really 'outclass' us by a significant degree.

As far as having scions 'for' specific city states I don't think that really matters anymore now that the focus it beyond the initial three city states and now into other lands. In ARR it made sense, in HW and beyond we don't really 'need' a scion assigned to each region anymore story wise.

I'm also not sure I'd say Y'shola is a 'main' character on the same level as the twins, they especially Alph seem more important than Y'shtola to me. She seems more on the level of Thancred ad Popalymo before he died, maybe slightly above them but not eclipsing them. The only thing that really stood out over the others was she was the first one to come back in HW, but still Alph was high above her in importance.