Quote Originally Posted by Kesey View Post
I know that Emet is the one that revealed this information because his plan involved "hoping we'd remember to be Azem" and defect. Maybe they didn't have the story planned out in that detail that far back, but they seem to have had a basic plan. So, I'm not sure your point still stands. And Elidibus is only senile when Emet and Lahabrea aren't around to guide him.
The basic plan seems to have been to use us as puppets until we get to annoying and then kill us. None (its not even 100% sure if Emet saw our soul from the very start and he only met us on the first anyway) of the other Ascians seems to have the gift to see the colors of the souls. I doubt that any of those ever thought that we are Azem.

Even Emet was more like "maybe she/he gets strong enough to overpower the light and if not then I have another weapon to destroy the first." I wonder if he only told us about the crystals being primals in the hope that it would stop us from doing what we have done. And I am not sure that he hoped that we would defect as soon as we remembered something about Azem. We possess the same soul but are still different people and Azem was a traitor that was against Zodiark from the start, so much that they even gave back their position, something which seemingly never happened before.