Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
Especially jarring when you consider the fact that at the end of 6.0, the Scion is so self-aware of their influence that they impose a self-banned so that they don't inadvertently effect nation's politic.

Yet ironically, and idiotically in DT I think we have the most direct involvement in playing kingmaker then we ever did comparing to all other expansion.

Just another point to show that the new writing team did a horrible job in maintaining consistency in the story, like it's almost they don't care.
The "disbanding" was primarily so the different nations within Eorzea would stop relying so heavily on the Scions to do all the heavy lifting and start taking the lead in solving their own problems, while the Scions went back to doing what the Scions did before they got so heavily involved in the "Eorzean Grand Company" or whatever it was called. I just looked up the cutscene again and Y'shtola straight up says:

"From now on, it falls to the Grand Companies of Eorzea and its allies to deal with the realm's crises."

With Urianger then adding:

"Meanwhile, we shall return to our erstwhile ways."

There's no consistency issue there. The Scions just wanted Eorzea to stop relying on them to do everything so they (the Scions) could get back to doing their own thing and making their own decisions rather than being ordered about by the Grand Companies. It wasn't about "affecting politics" that persuaded them to "disband." I swear, we've now reached the point of literally making things up just to find excuses to trash the dev team. Seriously...