What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Teraq]

Re: The Convocation sitting on their asses on Amaurot. I, naturally, despise this concept with all of my heart, because the player base relies entirely too much on it to other the Convocation and cast them as aloof, unaware of what is happening in the real world and only Azem actually dealt with the real little people. Extend this to Venat, as the former Azem, for the maximum anti-Ancient headcanon, because only she travelled at all and thus she would know everything about how people would react, so she was 100% right you guys and the Ancients as a whole were just spoiled little children.

The thing is, I don't think it makes much sense personally. As someone who likes headcanoning that the Convocation was basically a big dysfunctional family, I do love thinking Azem would call upon any of them at the drop of a hat whenever the situation called for it. I mean... if a massive marine animal is causing trouble, who you gonna call? Maybe not just Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch. But that's just me.

Hyth in FR says that Azem, rather than coming back to Amaurot to report to the Convocation for every little trouble, would call upon their comrades to deal with the situation. I have always interpreted "comrades" as the Convocation, given that it followed the mention of the Convocation. I suppose you could interpret "comrades" as separate from the Convocation here, but I see nothing indicating they would be mutually exclusive. My mind jumped to "comrades = Convocation" because of my personal bias as indicated above, but you could just as well go with "comrades = absolutely not the Convocation (okay Emet you can come)".

Most of them were probably well-traveled before being named to their Seat, much like Hades. You don't just become a member of the Convocation by being a random Amaurotine. The knowledge and expertise they need to have implies to me that they had to know a whole lot about the world. Like... Mitron and Loghrif? Yeah, you probably don't become an expert on aquatic and terrestrial lifeforms by reading books in Akademia Anyder.

Though I suppose this is drifting into my unease with Azem as the Traveller as a concept. Makes them a little too special, and I've always thought the "shepherd to the stars" title was more fitting to... a mediator type... but I guess this title might not have been an Ancient thing, and was merely a figure of speech by Emet/Totally-Hythlo to refer to the WoL's role in vanquishing the Ascians now.