
Originally Posted by
kiagenwa
Wait why the list is so long.
G'raha, Krile, Matoya, Moenbryda, Fourchenault are Scion?
Some of the people you named are Scions, yes. The ones that aren't are still Archons, which are a separate class of people, which many of the featured Scions are in addition to being Scions. Archons are scholars who have, among other things, published an Archon thesis, analogous to a real world Ph.D. dissertation, and have been recognized as sages of their fields. Anyone with the funny R tattoo is an Archon, and the tattoo is their ID for getting access to sections of Sharlayan libraries that contain knowledge that could be considered dangerous in the hands of non-experts.
(Never heard of Rammbroes, he's in ShB?)
You have met Rammbroes. He's the Roegadyn in charge of St Coinach's Find in Mor Dhona, the camp to the east of Revenant's Toll. His tattoo is notable for being white rather than red, and on top of his head.
And lol why would a scion specialized in hand-to-hand combat.
lol why would anyone specialize in how to kick ass and not get their ass kicked
There are real world people who train their whole lives to master combat arts, and why wouldn't an organization whose goal is to prevent the destruction of the world keep at least one of those around?
Yda (Lyse) wasn't a real member.
She was more like an orphan raised by the Scion.
You're mistaken about Yda on two accounts. First,
Yda, the real Yda, wasn't a Scion at all, as died before the formation of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn; she was, however, a member of the Circle of Knowing, one of the two groups that later merged to become the Scions.
But second,
her studies in Sharlayan and mastery of her field definitely did earn her Archon status well before her death, as she did have real Archon tattoos. This is why Papalymo had to glamour fake ones onto Lyse when she took up Yda's identity.