Why are alisaie and alphinaud in Dawntrail?

[midnitdragoon]

Like ok no problem, i get the devs want us to see familiar faces... but why?

[Turnintino]

Well, they're very popular, unfortunately lol.

At least as far as I've seen, though, (which isn't much, tbf, I've been taking my time) they haven't been featured much. They're there, but not actually doing much. Which may leave you more confused about their inclusion, I guess, but... otherwise, it's probably just to fill out Trusts.

[CottonC]

I mean imagine if there where not in it and you had even more of Wuk Lamat to suffer through, at this point I welcome anyone would it be Scion or not, enemy or friend, anyone as any even smallest fraction of time without Wuk Lamat is precious.

[Galvuu]

Like ok no problem, i get the devs want us to see familiar faces... but why?

To nod, encourage Wuk Lamat and make her seem super duper awesome, and be in the promo material to jebait you into thinking the Dawntrail story has any sense of cohesion.
Seriously- they did nothing. Worse, they're so mischaracterized in DT that 95% of the time I can't tell which twin is which.
And you know it's true, because the real Alisae would immediately throw a fit if she realized she was sounding 100% like Alphinaud.
Give me my twins back SE... these are skinwalkers. Where are they?!

[midnitdragoon]

I mean imagine if there where not in it and you had even more of Wuk Lamat to suffer through, at this point I welcome anyone would it be Scion or not, enemy or friend, anyone as any even smallest fraction of time without Wuk Lamat is precious.

I would have been ok with this though. Give me a whole cast of new characters to worry about as im taking my time in the MSQ.

[Chasingstars]

They are just their to learn from how another country handles matters, Tural, and then take that information to go and help the Garleans on the relief effort. Nothing more.

[lolnotacat]

So they can ask "Where's Wuk Lamat?" when Wuk Lamat isn't on screen.

[Oizen]

All the scions are just background dressing now. This is why people wanted the characters retired.

[Turnintino]

All the scions are just background dressing now. This is why people wanted the characters retired.

Most of who we consider to be the core Scions were no more than set dressing in nearly every stage of the story before Shadowbringers (except arguably post-HW). If anything, this is a return to form lol.

[fioravictorine]

I mean they should be. But the twins in Dawntrail are just souless husk with their names

What happened to Alisaie's sass and brashfulness? And Alphinaud with his political knowledge and experience on nation states had literally nothing to say about Tural