Quote Originally Posted by AnotherPerson View Post
Otherwise, Emet would've just went and read the past himself to see the events that happened following to his memory loss.
They don't need to use that power to find out what happened, they need to use it to find out Hermes' knowledge about Dynamis should he be unwilling to do so.
And again, they don't really need to do that because Venat already knows the solution Hermes will present for the Final Days due to our retelling of the events.

Quote Originally Posted by AnotherPerson View Post

The cutscene in Thou Must Live, Die, and Know.

You can tell everyone ignored Venat's words about moving forward.
Yeah, this is perphaps the worst cutscene in the expansion due to the massive retcon it does to fit it's narrative. In ShB we saw the records in Anamnesis Anyder in which Zodiark is summoned and then Venat and her close followers discuss "woops, Zodiark is actually too strong we need to do something".

Here in this cutscene, the Ancients summon Zodiark and Venat goes "ahaha sundering goes brrrrrrrrrrr" immediately afterwards.