In vanilla, all of the blades trainers, in addition to offering helpful advice to the player and sometimes some items, all also have unique responses to 'latest rumors' that expands upon their personal jobs/tasks within the blades organisation. 

This small bit of flavour text goes a long way and is missing, at least for Idra Uvalen in Firewatch and I suspect the others. Is a great way to give a little bit of context, depth and background information on the goings on of an area.