Quote Originally Posted by Alisa180 View Post
Let's be fair here: It's outright stated that the WoL didn't tell the full story of what happened to them. It's only after everyone else leaves that they reveal to Minfilia that they lost the Blessing of Light, for instance, and only because she sensed something 'off'. (As a point in your favor, though, in the JP version Middy says there's no need to keep the seal a secret. Yet they do anyway.)
Minfilia does say that she doesn't wish to worry the other Scions, and you assured her that it was not a problem, after all.

The WoL is a very similar case. Remove the Scions from the equation, and they become aimless. See: Right after the attack on the Waking Sands. There was very little indication that they were going to go on to do anything more for a long while yet, before Alphinaud showed up and kicked them back into gear. Fact is, they need the Scions just as badly as they need us.
This is pretty much exactly what I said: without the Scions, we lose our purpose. After the raid on the Waking Sands, we were literally just going where other people told us, until we got to the church and the priest told us to take our time and didn't send us off anywhere. We were back to being the lone Adventurer doing odd tasks for random people, only this time we didn't have much to do in terms of helpful tasks either.