Is anyon else tired of Ascians story?

[Rosenstrauch]

If Emet-Selch says the Ascians are tempered, I'm inclined to believe him. It's not as if the story has made that a point of contention, either. Nobody ever questions if the Ascians are really tempered, like Ardbert does with himself and the WoL when it comes to Hydaelyn. Nobody ever uses it as an argument against them, either. It's treated more akin to a piece of trivia. That's kind of weird, but then so are a lot of moment to moment beats in this game's plot. I'm still not entirely over Ryne's random "I've never heard Hydaelyn's voice" line in 5.3, when right at the end of 5.2 we had that big scene where it turns out Hydaelyn is actively calling out to anyone who can hear Her.

I'm still waiting for the trigger to be pulled on that one. But I also expect and fear that 5.5 will be the last time we ever see or hear from Ryne, and that's if we actually get to see that follow-up festival.

But that's a tangent for another thread and another time. The point I wanted to make is that there's a lot of leeway when it comes to the way a primal's thralls behave. There has to be—they wouldn't be capable of infiltration otherwise (see: 4.1's Lakshmi appearance). Heck, the Serpent Reavers are a band of pirates explicitly under Leviathan's thrall, and yet Captain Madison is a pretty normal guy aside from that. Even in his second appearance, where he's ten feet tall with a kraken for a head, he acts about the same.

[Kesey]

I'm still not entirely over Ryne's random "I've never heard Hydaelyn's voice" line in 5.3, when right at the end of 5.2 we had that big scene where it turns out Hydaelyn is actively calling out to anyone who can hear Her.

I'm still waiting for the trigger to be pulled on that one. But I also expect and fear that 5.5 will be the last time we ever see or hear from Ryne, and that's if we actually get to see that follow-up festival.

I think, and this is just my theory as the game doesn't spell it out in so many words, but Ryne doesn't have the echo like Minfillia had because she did, she'd be able to travel back and forth between the source and 1st like the WOL does.

That being said, the implied meaning of the joke the WOL can make to Gaia at the end of Eden arc about how she can go tell Thancred and Urianger what ended up happening, implies that Gaia can hop worlds, and by extension take Ryne with her.

So there is the possibility to bring her back if the writers what to. Also she may become a major player in the new story line on the 1st, but we'll just have to wait and see how that pans out.