Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
He's not exactly bereft of information at the end, he knows about everything he forgot, he's somehow been watching us with Hythlo and knows what we've been up to, and he knows all about his own people and what they were capable of. Don't take this personally, but I think Emet's assessment of his peoples chances is far more likely to be accurate than yours is.
I mean, again, his mindset is clearly different than what it is in Elpis, so much so hes shocked at what he becomes. The fact is with everything we're told and shown, had Venat actually told her people what happened, they could've found a way forward, they just werent given the chance. Considering we have relied upon said unsundered ancients time and time again, we clearly cant do it ourselves. We need their help. If we couldnt do it without their help then whose to say they couldnt do it themselves? Dont take this personally but i think the writer's wrote themselves into a corner with this and it shows. While trying to write the story in a way that indirectly tried to say the sundering isnt all that bad and the sundered are capable of things the ancients arent, they contradicted themselves based on how theyve wrote things in the past. The sundered have hardly ever done thing via their own merit. Theyve done so with indirect help of the ancients or higher up entities. Hydaelyn,allag, etc etc. It just shows we'd be nowhere were it not for them.