Our Azem - A secret plan? (Slight EW Spoilers)

[RyuDragnier]

If the rejoining is considered genocide, despite the souls just being funneled back together, then the sundering is genocide. If your justification for her self admitted cruel, awful, unforgivable act is that the "souls are okay" then it's better to put your hypocrisy to rest.

I would argue against that. Look at how different the lives between Ardbert and the WoL are essentially, if you killed Ardbert (before he willingly fused) to force him into the WoL's soul, you have in fact committed murder due to a lack of consent and the fact that despite the souls being the same, they are not the same person, having different lives, friends, family, etc. While the Sundering was done with a lack of consent, it didn't kill anybody (as they all have the same personalities), it merely divided their souls and essentially made copies of them on copies of the world, funneling them into self contained reincarnation cycles.

However...that does bring one thing into play, something that leads into the main focus of this thread. The Sundered life right after the Sundering would still have memories of the Final Days and Zodiark, even divided. Yet somehow not a single one of them seemed to remember Zodiark (inferring this), nor was his name known for the longest to anybody but the Ascians. Considering how everybody forgot the WoL during the 5 year time skip after the fall of Dalamud, that means somehow people's memories were wiped, in both cases. The question then becomes, who did it? While we could say Hydaelyn, we saw nothing that could hint at her having power over people's memories. Kairos as we know had the power to wipe memories, and makes me wonder...was Azem's plan to get Kairos and use it somehow? And if so, does its recent usage mean it's in possession of somebody associated with Hydaelyn, like The Twelve?