*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[MikkoAkure]

I think the funny thing about this thread topic is that Emet-Selch himself sides with the WoL against Elidibus and his own civilization in Shadowbringers after he is returned to the Underworld, recovers his memories, and is removed of Zodiark’s “tug”.

All it would have taken is for him to do nothing and the 8th Calamity would have proceeded and Zodiark would have been revived further down the road.

[Rulakir]

I think the funny thing about this thread topic is that Emet-Selch himself sides with the WoL against Elidibus and his own civilization in Shadowbringers after he is returned to the Underworld, recovers his memories, and is removed of Zodiark’s “tug”.

All it would have taken is for him to do nothing and the 8th Calamity would have proceeded and Zodiark would have been revived further down the road.

It's a lot more complicated than that. Emet wouldn't have let the WoL get as far as they did had they not been Azem reincarnated. His sentimentality played a significant part in sabotaging their efforts. Had the WoL been a random soul they likely never would have made it past him to even get to Elidibus. Speaking of which, he was barely holding it together. Emet was painfully aware of the burden of shouldering the fate of their civilization throughout the millennia when there were 3 of them, let alone solo. What he did was arguably a mercy.