Quote Originally Posted by Alleluia View Post
Azem wasn't tempered and left the convocation in protest against Zodiark. The sundered ascians they raise from soul shards are from shards of Ascians who are tempered and predisposed to go along with the convocation. There is no reason that our soul shard would be able to recruited as a member of the ascian ranks. If they get their memory back, they wouldn't willingly agree to it. And since Zodiark isn't whole, I think he can't temper anything, so they couldn't brainwash us, either.
We don't actually know the full details as to why Azem defected from the Convocation. We also don't know the exact details of how the Ascians ascend one of their lesser brethren—it's not even something we know they've done beyond what is strictly necessary (ie: There are 13 Overlords, but only 3 are Unsundered, so of course the other 10 had to be ascended to their positions). As for Azem's soulstone, I have to point out that it can not actually contain Azem's memories—Azem defected before it was even created, and what few apparent memories it does possess belonged to its creator, Emet-Selch/Hades. And as for Zodiark not being able to temper anyone, if that were the case, would the sundered Ascians even be tempered to begin with?

But all of that, I think, is fairly irrelevant to the idea. Elidibus was able to convince Ardbert and his companions into trying to cause a Rejoining with words alone. Is it really that farfetched to believe that they could do the same with our future reincarnation?