I personally don't even want scions in the story in any major way (they can be fine background and/or characters that pop up but apart of the main cast again? please no), I wanted a new cast but looks like we're stuck with scions :]]]

At this point I don't think they're going to kill any off and if one does "die" no one will believe it, until they realise it was for real this time!
I really hope we don't get anymore cheap fake deaths, it's one of the biggest issues with the story.

I'm personally not looking forward to the story and keeping my expectations low, all I really hoped for was a new cast but we're strictly not getting that.