I was also very confused about why the Scions even accepted helping at all in a contest for leadership of a foreign land while having NO knowledge of the other participants aside from what the one hiring them said 'that ones bad'. I know we've helped budding leaders before, but we usually haven't outright gone 'okay this one should win over these others we know nothing about' and actively put all our efforts into making sure they win. I for one would have been very keen to know why Wuk Lamat didn't simply support Koana and instead chose to try for leadership herself. Did she not think Koana would want peace? I thought she was supposed to be close to him? (if they'd showed a flashback with Koana telling her that they should both participate to increase the odds of someone other than Zarool winning that may have helped) Also if she's so friendly and buddy buddy with everyone why exactly did she even need to hire the Scions? Shouldn't she have had friends and people she knew in her homeland that could have helped her? Come to think of it we don't actually see any friends of hers besides her family (including the nursemaid), and the guy who makes tacos? How is she so friendly yet so alone?

It also bugged me that all our echo bouts in this expansion were basically useless. We see flashes while someone is literally describing the event to us. Which usually makes us no better off than those who listened to the retelling. These did not have to be from the echo, you could have just shown stuff as they were telling us. Previously at least a chunk of our echo use would be things people weren't telling or were hiding, making our ability actually useful instead of us just having a headache whenever someone mentions the past. The one place it actually helped was where we recognized Kriles parents, that's it.