What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[SDaemon]

There's no reason to believe they couldn't/wouldn't given knowledge of what happened. (Or at the very least prepare defense)

And yet Emet's own words paint a different picture.

[KizuyaKatogami]

In regards to the Scions and where plot armor is concerned that's probably because there's still stories to be told concerning them as individuals later down the line.

What exactly did Yshtola do of significance this expansion outside of the Ultima Thule snippet? Because i for the life of me can’t think of anything she really did outside of reading some books but maybe i missed something, but she seemed like the character the most that was just…there. Urianger had the rabbits, Thancred had the garlemald infiltration, Krile alisaie and alphinaud had sharlayan. But what exactly did Yshtola do that any of the others couldn’t have done in her place?

[Lauront]

And yet Emet's own words paint a different picture.

Or do they? As this poster pointed out...

Except besides those lines of dialogue, everything else points otherwise. Why wouldn’t they be able to hone their dynamis skills? We know they were able to manipulate it as they use limit breaks in the dungeon. Hermes was able to create a familiar who could interact with it. They had an entire facility again, they could use to hone their skills. They’re commenting on it as how they see it now. Considering they never even got the chance to try, they don’t know for certain. Keep in mind this is the Emet that toiled centuries to being about a rejoining. The rejoining methods would not have brought them that far that is correct. Venat telling them originally what was going on might have. What we know points to them having at least had the right tools, it was a matter of using them. Venat is the one who gambled everything on a single person and had forsaken her own people so i’m not really going to even address her thoughts as she’s the one who kept secrets from them in the first place.

[Jandor]

Hermes literally memwipes them to prevent them from chasing down and destroying Metion. There's no reason to believe they couldn't/wouldn't given knowledge of what happened. (Or at the very least prepare defense)

In fact, that act is evidence that they would, imo.

I wouldn't say no reason. Emet gets the knowledge of what happened, and says they wouldn't have done as well. That's a pretty good reason to be fair.

For him to be wrong, we have to buy into the idea that he gets the knowledge of what happened, and the idea of just chasing down the Metia and destroying them never even occurs to him. That seems highly improbable.

[HappyHubris]

"Venat doomed the world by not telling her people about Meteion" This has to be one of the most sheltered, lives in their own bubble response I have seen constantly in this thread. I could easily look at any social media, see how people who don't take the poke are seen as evil for having an opposing opinion. Then the people in this forum just assume that the odd personality, former Azem crystal holder who is known to be quirky, is being super cereal about Meteion. There is nothing in the game that can support the theory that they will accept this information and is literally created out of thin air based on their head cannon alone. The ancients lived sheltered, they acted sheltered when the world wasn't perfect. They didn't hesitate to sacrifice lives to keep their security blanket. Maybe have some actual info that supports the claim that the Ancients would of believed Venat before jumping to your own conclusive head cannon info.

The game itself told us this, as Emet Selch committed himself to track down a fanciful sounding threat from the mere familiar of a quirky person, even though it portrayed him as a mass murderer. The guy tasked with ferreting out every and any threat to the star isn't going to say "Well I was just memory wiped and you're telling me a story that fits the facts, but no way you're just too quirky LOL."

[HappyHubris]

I wouldn't say no reason. Emet gets the knowledge of what happened, and says they wouldn't have done as well. That's a pretty good reason to be fair.

For him to be wrong, we have to buy into the idea that he gets the knowledge of what happened, and the idea of just chasing down the Metia and destroying them never even occurs to him. That seems highly improbable.

I took his comment as referring to their rejoining plan not succeeding, not the convocation being able to mitigate Meteion thousands of years ago with actual advance notice.

You should also note that the conversation was a pep talk to the WoL. If you're building up your champion to succeed, you're not going to start pointing fingers and second-guessing at that juncture. Of course the WoL will be told that her cause is just and righteous, the best and only option.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Still waiting for someone to explain to me what Yshtola did this expansion that was so substantial it warranted not killing her off. Anyone?

[Kaurhz]

Still waiting for someone to explain to me what Yshtola did this expansion that was so substantial it warranted not killing her off. Anyone?

Pretty sure they've eluded to her several times as wanting to work on a method of traversing to the other reflections, pretty sure that's something she's wanting to spearhead. Which to me if it is then in the grand scheme of the story itself going forward can be a very significant thing.

Arguably in terms of merit they could have just quite easily killed anyone off. Not sure about the whole shtick with Y'shtola specifically.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Pretty sure they've eluded to her several times as wanting to work on a method of traversing to the other reflections, pretty sure that's something she's wanting to spearhead. Which to me if it is then in the grand scheme of the story itself going forward can be a very significant thing.

Arguably in terms of merit they could have just quite easily killed anyone off. Not sure about the whole shtick with Y'shtola specifically.

I was specifying her because the other charcaters at least had something somewhat significant they were doing this expansion. But i cant for the life of me think of anything she did this expansion of substantial value.

[Kaurhz]

I was specifying her because the other charcaters at least had something somewhat significant they were doing this expansion. But i cant for the life of me think of anything she did this expansion of substantial value.

Their sole measure shouldn't be based solely on the given fact of what they do this expansion, or have done this expansion, but their planned endeavours for her going forward. Which if she's planning to work on a method for traversing the reflections is pretty darn significant. Given how late their eluded deaths were, then beyond that immediate point none of them really served any significant purpose anyway. So in reality they could have killed off any one of the scions. Besides the more they done and contributed up towards that point would have made for a much more impactful and surprising death.