Emet-Selch Is Not That Tragic

[Alleo]

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Well his motivation is to bring his whole perished race back to life, I wouldn't exactly call this evil? But the means to do it certainly are.

All in all I do find Emet to be a tragic figure (maybe not in a classical sense) but still. I can understand his motives, I feel for him but ultimately he had to be defeated...

The problem is that after they got tempered (when their planet was save again) and they could just go on with their lives they decided to instead stomp over the sacrifices their people made and to cause further tragedy by wanting to sacrifice a huge amount of new life to Zodiark in return of the old one. And lets remember that this was at a time where everyone still got a whole soul. They might have had the rights to summon Zodiark to save themselves from something they may or may not have caused but they had no rights to then turn around and sacrifice unwilling life to get their friends back. Emet is all about us never being able to do such a sacrifice (which is not true seeing how the people of the bad future did that) yet unlike most mortals they cant just accept this death, either because of them being tempered or because of them never seeing such death.

Had they accepted death then Hydealyn might have never been summoned, the world might have never been split.

I can feel for them and I can understand their sadness and I even really like Emet-Selch as a character, but what the Ascians had planned after the calamity was over was evil. And people disagreed that much with it that they thought that it would be better to summon Hydealyn and go against them.