If they had the trust of the rest of the villagers, then they could become something similar to leaders or spiritual leaders among them, like a village shaman or priest.
It all depended on whether such things would be accepted publicly and how they were able to integrate themselves among those people.
If they were publicly accepted, then they could influence things in various ways, allowing them to gain a powerful and influential voice among those people, just as they could provide instructions on how they should all proceed whenever dangerous threats appeared.
In a time of crisis, more such groups would be forced to emerge to try to control the chaos a little more.
Some of it would have negative results, while others could help control things more to prevent unnecessary injuries and deaths.
When sensing that things were no longer so easy to let people remain there, there would be a time when there would be a need to retreat.
