Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Unless of course the whole thing is a booby trap designed by Emet as part of his recreated Amaurot rather than representing the original, hoping our goody-two-shoes sidequesting instincts will lead us to taking up the offer and getting swamped by playful jellyblobs before he ever has to deal with us himself.
I know this is said in jest, but I think it's closer to the truth than "Wow, that man's such an arse he tried to foist murder machines on children!". The Amaurot we see in Shadowbringers is an elaborate stage. What appear to be flesh and blood Ancients are really just props playing out an illusion of life. And as a few characters in this stretch of the story note, any attempt to push these props out of their intended behavior accomplishes very little.

I believe this quest was there to highlight the necessity of Amaurot's bureaucratic methods and the dangers creation magic could pose even when used benignly, but also to showcase a moment of glamour failure by having one of the illusions Emet-Selch crafted push the boundaries of what he expected it to do.