I'll give any theory at least a little time of my day, yeah. You never know. Clearly anything can happen, so even if it feels irrelevant, may as well keep it on the back-burner.

I believe a part of the cult's criteria was as wide of a range as possible though, so maybe they were reluctant to pluck eight of you from the same place. Too many familiar faces and they may as well be stupidly outnumbering themselves.