*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Slatersev]

The Amaurotines technically already self-destructed. Just not in the exact same way as others we’ve seen through Meteion did.

One of their number gets upset with his society, plays with forces he barely understands and are outside his control, goes mad at the revelation they brought him, and decides to test all of humanity with an apocalypse before wiping his own memory and that of one of the leaders of the account.

Then the leaders of the society when faced with the threat delete chunks of their remaining population to stop it through summoning a god, and when they decide to sacrifice the life they created to get their society back, a splinter group of their society breaks reality, effectively bringing the remaining population of their race to 4, 2 of whom are technically gods or partial gods now.

As I’ve said before, the future that would face the Ancient civilization if they came back would no longer be the same as it would be before, and would probably more closely resemble Meteion’s projection of Ra La. They all come back to life and now have a living god. Do you think their zealotry or their god will just go away? It would change the civilization completely.

Also when Xande came back to life threw cloning it came with him concluding life didn't matter because everything ends and that leads to his Covenant with the Cloud of Darkness.

Who's to say some of the Ancients who made the sacrifice if they were brought back wouldn't reach the same conclusion?

That's not even getting into the idea that we don't know how the Anicents would have reacted to the idea that new life was sacrificed without there consent to bring them back. Like I have said this before but does Hythlodaeus seem like the type who would be pleased or ambivalent to find out his best friend committed mass sacrifice on innocent people without a say to bring him back?

New and likely permeant fissures in there society was guaranteed even under the best case scenario because it involves a permeant new god that Tempered there leaders and a bunch of revived dead people who would have very varying reactions to being brought back to life and what it took to make that happen.