*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Veloran]

Here I thought I was the only one who didn't want to join the Scions! Yet another dialog choice in EW that doesn't offer anything but positive options.

I didn't really mind joining the Scions, but I did have a big problem when Y'shtola told Unukalhai during the WT that WoL signed up knowing full well that they would be forced to kill tempered individuals.

Like what? That's just an outright lie, we only get told about all that after joining and after killing Ifrit, when Thancred pulls us aside and goes "Yeah those guys? All executed, be ready to do it yourself in the future."

[OhNooo]

The conflict between us and the Ascians reminds me of...how pretty much all the countries we each live in had native people who lived there first and were conquered. It was wrong of the colonizers to do what they did to the natives. But then you have all of us here who are alive and are a result of that colonialism. I kind of view the Ascians as natives going up to let's say a random citizen of a country and saying "We were here first so you've gotta go." And I'm like yeah it was horrible what happened to you but I didn't have anything to do with that. I can acknowledge that it wasn't right and I can try to educate myself and other people about what happened and how we can do better so that we don't have that same attitude that the conquerors had, but I'm not going to just lay there if you're actively trying to get rid of me. At the same time, I wouldn't be "sympathetic" or "understanding" to conquerors like "Oh yeah I understand why you did that. They were obviously savages and needed to be taught how to be civilized even though they lost their whole identity and a lot of them died off from diseases. In the end it turned out better for them."