Quote Originally Posted by SDaemon View Post
If Trusts for trials had been a thing back then, SE would have set up the plot in a way that 7 NPCs would be present. How? Thats just a matter of literary freedom at this point since we're talking about a story that has already been written, but I've no doubt they would have had them be present for some reason or another, good or bad. That could very well have meant the story added some able-bodied NPCs leading up to Susano or the Scions not being yeeted back home early for Endsinger and the narrative changing accordingly.
So therefore do you acknowledge that the narrative is important for who's accompanying you via the Trust system for trials?

I appreciate it's something they only implemented from SHB and it would be difficult to go back and implement it for all HW to SB trials, especially for several where there's no real viable way narratively to have 7 NPCs around you to do the trial with. It would have been nice to have and I have no problem with the Trust system as an actual system, something which the majority of people haven't seemed to grasp yet and I have explicitly said it's great for dungeons. It's simply the execution of it narratively for the Trials that it hasn't worked cohesively in Dawntrail.