so the 3 unbroken are/were members of The Convocation of Fourteen
Elidibus - Emissary
Lahabrea - Speaker
Emet-Seich - Chair
Just the sort of group that might make a good envoy to treat with something/somewhere external to the planet? thus meaning they were not there for the sundering, and remained hole.
Emet just before the Amaurot duty mentions we would make for poor stewards of any star.
That would also mean the account given by Emet-Seich of the last painting is not 1st hand experience but something Emet came to after returning, and may not been there for the 3rd painting either.
We can assume safely that he was on the planet during the time the 1st and 2nd paintings depict. even if he glazed over all the information they depict.
Yeah it seems liking to me that Zodiark and Hydaelyn are one in the same or some fashion like that. I mean it took 1/3 of the Amaurotians to make Zodiark another 1/3 to return life to the planet.
So with 1/3 remaining a small fractured group of that 1/3 summoned Hydaelyn and was equal to Zodiark?
if we go back and look at these 3 paintings again
Note the rings over the head of the deities.
Zodiark has 2 "halos", then Zodiark and Hydaelyn have a "halo" each, finally Hydaelyn has 2 "halos" and Zodiark has none.
Also Zodiark has a red aura. Infected with the "Red flame"?
I'd say "Hydaelyn" was an amendment to "Zodiark" after the "Red flame" infected Zodiark like a parasite.
Indeed it would.
To that effect I would hope on the return of Emet soon as a lesser ascian made by Elidibus with what ever bits of his shattered soul that was left.
Elidibus is really stressed at the moment leaves it open for Emet's recreation to go majorly array much like Hythlodaeus and maybe get an allied version of Emet plus lots of stuff to delve into if that happened.
I'd love to see how Emet would coupe with self awareness of his death and now being little more than one of the tattered souls he holds with contempt.