I feel like the issue there is that the Scions aren’t the Path of the Twelve. But they aren’t the Circle of Knowing, either.

But the resulting merged group seems to be trying to still hold to the individual charters of its two component groups, despite the fact that one (the Circle’s “Sharlayan renegades throwing aside tradition and coming to try to aid the Eorzean city-states“) doesn’t really fit well with the other (the Path’s “we are the secretive, hidden organization that studies the Echo and tries to find ways to use it for the greater good“).

It made a lot of sense that the secretive Echo-powered group would aid the public “we must organize and rally together to solve problems” group. It makes somewhat less sense for them to operate as the same group from a practical standpoint, even if it makes NARRATIVE sense that Louisoix would tell the other Archons of the Circle of Knowing to go throw in with Minfilia if he didn’t make it back from Carteneau.