Quote Originally Posted by chizLemons View Post
People will only complain if you don\\\\'t give us a good enough REASON for their absense. If I feel the only reason a character isn\\\\'t included in the story is because the writer didn\\\\'t want them there, then I\\\\'d be upset (like I was in Dawntrail). If I feel like "ok, that makes sense, and we will meet them again and see how that went afterwards", and then we get to see the result of their work at a later time, then it\\\\'s satisfying.
I love the Scions. I don’t want an expansion where they don’t show up at all. But yes, I want a reason for their presence and/or absence. I want them to feel like an active part of the story. While I enjoyed the MSQ, I did feel like most of the Scions, and at times even my own character, were just tagging along.

For DT, it was fine that the twins went… but even though they had a few speaking parts here and there, they didn’t really feel like themselves. Krile should definitely have had more spotlight… half the important reveals in her story were done offscreen! And we should have had more conversation with Erenville during his arc… I know we’re not quite besties at this point, but he got a pretty heavy emotional bomb dropped on him, and I know my WoL would’ve wanted to at least try to console him and talk about it!

As for the others, I see a lot of missed opportunities. We should’ve had at least one fun friendly sparring match with Thancred & Urianger as a solo duty type thing. Other than that, they had a reason for being there, and were actually relevant to Koana’s story. Graha was okay, and in particular, the gondola scene was great, but they could’ve given him more in the lead up to LM. Y’shtola I feel will have more of a role in the patches, as we (hopefully!) research the key and see what it can do, but didn’t seem like she was utilized as well as she could be where she appeared.

I wrote this in another thread, but I would also like NPCs in general, but big ones like the Scions in particular, to be more interactive outside of the MSQ. Some of the examples I used were “mini-quests” like dropping in on Y’shtola for a cup of tea and chat about the latest (plot relevant) book she found in the restricted section, or go bar-hopping with Thancred, or stargazing with Urianger? Teach Alphinaud to swim? Have a sparring match with Alisae? Learn to paint with Krile? And most of those could have been done in Tural too. We could’ve went back to that taco stand with Graha and finally gotten our taco!

But it would be nice if we could get more than a one-line response from the big NPCs after the MSQ has concluded, like actually spend some time with them. It would also be a way they could still be included during storylines that don’t really have a major plot point for them, so the people that dislike them don’t feel like they’re being shoehorned in, but those who enjoy them don’t feel like they’ve been left out.