Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Why are they part of this story?
Easy. It was the easiest way to give motivation to Emet-selch to want to personally talk to the player throughout the events of Shadowbringers. Rather than motivation for the player to like the Ancients, it's motive for the Ancient characters to like the player.

Think about the scene just before the Scions and the citizenry of Eulmore get The Ladder working. Emet-selch appears before you, and only you, to speak about Amaurot for the first time, while making facial ques that he's hopeful that he sparks a memory in the WoL. But of course, he doesn't.

Think ahead to when Elidibus first sends the WoL back in time to the Elpis facility. We're a shade, intangible. No one can hear us. Only Hythlodaeus and Hades can see us. And it's the fact that our soul resembles the current Azems that prompts Hythlodaeus to nag Hades into giving us form.

The Azem crystal, again, represents Hades's connection to Azem and us through them. It also had to be a functionally different ability from what Elidibus was using, because every person summoned in that way added to his power.

So, you tell me, what better way would there be to make the Ascians / Ancients want to interact with the player in a friendly way? (As an aside, Venat interacts with the WoL differently because she doesn't seem to have the special sight Hades and Hyth have. She smells her own magic, and is drawn to us as a message from herself. It's a tad conceited, but I digress)