
(06-22-2017, 11:49 AM)Valence Wrote: When the WoL shows up, guess who's asked to deal with those threats every time? Not companies of heroes. The WoL.
WoL is a busy bee, though. And the Grand Companies have already known since Carteneau that they can't rely on them always being there. Beast tribes will summon their primals when they have the crystals to do so, regardless of the WoL's current location, and the Grand Companies must have contingency plans for what to do if one is summoned while the WoL is engaged in something more imminently dangerous - a more aggressive or powerful primal elsewhere being one of these potential matters.
My personal headcanon is that the Scions trains and keeps a garrison of other Echo-users, sub-WoL level but still immune to tempering, and sends them against primals of an appropriate power level. So if the WoL is tangled up dealing with, say, an EX primal, or a new primal, then a group of lesser Scions might be sent instead to deal with the HM Ifrit that popped up at the same time.
But even then... there was that period of time between 2.55 and 3.X when the Grand Companies weren't officially able to rely on the disgraced Scions for anything...
None of it's ideal, but I think if it were, then the things wouldn't really be a threat...