Quote Originally Posted by OhNooo View Post
I wasn't disappointed that Hydaelyn didn't turn out to be "evil." I was disappointed because I kind of went into EW hoping we would end up exploring a "third option" that I felt was hinted at back in Shb since we know Azem left the convocation and also did not respond to Venat's group. It would have been interesting for the writers to touch on something like that. My headcanon right now is that Azem didn't agree with either side and was trying to find a 3rd option.
If this was a single player game then I’m pretty sure the third option would have been the past Azem gaining the memories of the future Azem (us) in a way reminiscent of Nebula in Avengers: Endgame, which also featured time travel shenanigans.

Past Azem would have then begun a mission to track down Meteion and end the whole thing outright.

But this is an MMO so it has to be fairly linear.