[Spoilers] Noble Sacrifices (and the lack thereof)

[Kiba_Whitewolf]

They do seem to be heavily hinting that Y'shtola and maybe even Urianger might stick around on the First. I could see Thancred staying for Ryne too.

[Dualblade]

They do seem to be heavily hinting that Y'shtola and maybe even Urianger might stick around on the First. I could see Thancred staying for Ryne too.

Thancred is another possibility, but Urianger is one I see coming back. Twins for sure will.

Feo will be in our heart. Also when we call her cause she totally could follow us. I wish SE would even though they won't.

On Sacrifices and all that: SE (and before then just Square) does this a lot. FF4 is a great example where multiple main characters make sacrifices but only one of them actually dies, everyone else manages to survive one way or another. Hell some of them pull off multiple heroic sacrifices!

[Iscah]

I did think Thancred was dying after the fight with Ran'jit. There are the effects all through it that he's forcing himself beyond mortal limits to pull off this last desperate trick, and then the music that plays over his I-thought-it-was-a-death-scene is the bridge from 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow': "From those who've fallen, to those who'll rise..."

(Not that I wanted him to die - I'm quite happy that everyone survived - but I certainly thought it was happening at that point.)

There was also the battle instance in Lakeland fighting off the sin eater invasion, where he got injured fighting one of the angels, so I really thought he was a timebomb waiting to turn like poor Tesleen did. But it never paid off.

Honestly I think the story writer intended for him to die, but then the game designers said "wait, we need him to stick around or we don't have a tank for the trust system..."

Ryne taking a seemingly mortal blow from Emet; they even have a slow motion effect on this one for emphasis

He'd already similarly shot all the other Scions, so either everyone was dying or nobody was. Ryne's was just more important because she was supposedly the last chance to halt our transformation into a sin eater, but she couldn't reach us in time.

They do seem to be heavily hinting that Y'shtola and maybe even Urianger might stick around on the First. I could see Thancred staying for Ryne too.

I feel like any of the characters staying behind on the First is a very unsettling concept. Remember their physical bodies are still alive on the Source. How horrible would that be for the soul to never come back?

If anyone is going to "stay" in the First I certainly hope it involves a trip back to the Source to regain their bodies, after which the Exarch can resummon them properly like he did for us.

I dont wish death upon anyone really and I'm glad it wasnt Tia this time around because I really did liked him....

Just being nitpicky but it doesn't really work to shorten his name to "Tia" - it's not a surname or an individual name at all, it's a tribe rank that the vast majority of male Sunseekers have.

(But yes, I'm also really glad he survived! Hopefully it will remain that way throughout the patches.)