Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I still think that we never will get a definitive Azem Answer to this question, specifically because Azem is intended to be our avatar.

The Zodiark/Hydaelyn thing was intentionally left morally open, with neither side being definitively right or wrong (Hydaelyn ended up being strategically correct, but that's rather different), and it's for that reason the writers left Azem neutral; because whichever side Azem favored would then become the implicitly correct decision. By the same token, Azem cannot then pioneer a third option, because the fact Azem is behind it then implicitly means it's the right one, and so both Zodiark and Hydaelyn become the incorrect choices.

It's similar to when a game has multiple endings, yet only one is the 'true' or 'perfect' ending where everything is resolved or that just has more content; the existence of that ending means that all other endings are 'false' endings, thereby declaring all reasoning that leads to those endings to be wrong.

Essentially: the fact people are sure Azem had a better idea is the reason that we should never hear if Azem had a better idea.
I think maybe they’ve laid out some pretty clear game mechanics (collecting Azem pieces) and mentioned Azem too many times to have them just be background dressing. It feels pretty likely that we’re gonna get them at some point, in some fashion.

And personally, I’m of the school that both Venat and the Convocation were wrong. The Convocation wanted to sacrifice the “new life” innocents, and Venat de-powered/mind-wiped an entire planet without their consent.

In either version, I can’t see our prototypical WOL (Azem) agreeing. Nor can I see Azem’s little band of proto-Scions agreeing. So I’m holding out hope we get to see/hear/play Azem to flesh out that bit of story. I imagine it would/could echo the same problem facing our WOL and the Scions in regards to the moon evacuation (: