Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[XiRon]

We have all of our weapons available on the First, where several of those nations and disciplines never existed at all.

True! but then none of those have like...a purpose in the story and Thancred still got his gnb shit from Rostik, not some rando on the First.
Though that does beg the question of, "why werent relics on Norvrandt?". Im sure loads of people would have enjoyed a relic story about a different worlds culture.
(And frankly they shouldnt have done Bozja until they bothered to make a single female hrothgar model but whats done is done now theres a nation with no opposite sex of its native race on the Source).

[TheMightyMollusk]

True! but then none of those have like...a purpose in the story and Thancred still got his gnb shit from Rostik, not some rando on the First.

He got training from Rostik. All of the Scions aside from the WoL arrived on the First completely naked with no equipment. His gear would have to be made there. Then Tataru had replicas made when they all came back.