Job quest NPC absent from both lore books?

[Qurho]

I'm not sure... where to put this admittedly. But yeah! I know 'existing' isn't exactly a guaranteed in into the lore books, but I guess I'm a bit surprised about this one, considering he's kind of a driving force in the post-50 questline? At the very least, he's the one you gotta talk to to start/continue most of the quests, haha.

But hey, yeah, anyone else notice that Sanson from the post-50 Bard stuff isn't uh, in either lore book? I just super love these quests and was disappointed upon obtaining and flipping through the second book to find nothing--again! I wasn't necessarily hoping for secret backstory information on like, why someone with no musical ability has such an interest in song and creating a Bard Unit (though it would be very nice). But like, not even a firm age!? He just doesn't exist?!

There's no real conclusion here, the books are already done and printed, but... maybe I can hope that I'm not just casting a line out into the void and the third time is the charm, haha.

[ObsidianFire]

He's a Lancer in the Serpents who wants a unit of Bards for support. So he's trying to field the idea to the Serpent command, who are less than thrilled with the idea. He's kinda like the BRD version of Dancing Wolf from the SMN quests. Neither of them are in the Lore Book even though they feature in the Lvl 50 quests.

[Iscah]

It's just that annoyingly rigid way they've formatted the job quest pages to only allow for two NPCs per job.

Lots of jobs could do with having more space for additional characters. I hope they change it or find some other way to incorporate them in future, like Sevestre from the AST questline got a profile in the Sharlayan section. (Depending on future developments and lorebook focuses, they might be able to get Sanson into some kind of feature on the Twin Adders?)

With nothing else to go on, I'd guess Sanson is around the same age as Guydelot. But yeah, it's disappointing that only one of the two could be listed.

[charmwitch]

For anyone curious:




It's from the 14-Hour Live Broadcast with Miss Saki Takayanagi this year.
It's a shame these didn't get translated, but it just states that Sanson is ~about 20 years old, buys his own clothes of adventures, and has an energetic personality.
It'd be nice to get something a little more official or just info, only because I'm kind of curious about why he's... the way he is, haha. (Why he loves song, but has no gift for it.)

The 14 hour broadcast also lists, very briefly, developer notes that aren't really touched upon in the lore book, so I hope in the future we can get some sort of expanded talk.
Also, we noticed the 2nd lore book has npcs that don't even have names to them but still had blurbs attached to them (haha)