Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Yeah, I know it works like that. It's still going to be better to not have a key character standing around in multiple places at once if they can help it. I think it's why they've taken so long to include Urianger as a member of the main group rather than having him arrive mid-cutscene when he has exposition to deliver, then vanish back to the Waking Sands as soon as it's over.
That "can't be more than 2 places at once" was why they made the original hard mode primals compulsory to access the 2.5 main scenario quests, because those quests were handed out by Minfilia and the Scions, but they are meant to be AWOL after the banquet.