When are we supposed to stop fighting?

[redheadturk]

We are the descendants of the people of Amaurot. It really doesn't matter if we're not as pretty as your fictional spouses with their luminescent eyes. It doesn't matter that our lives now involve more hardship than our ancestors did. We're one and the same, down to the same character flaws and the susceptibility towards making dumb mistakes.

'And so, as a show of respect to the last of us, I make this declaration. You will not end our journey! That is our answer! The answer of all lives of Etheirys, past and present!' Hope will ever counter despair, so long as you have the resilience to look for it. In Greek Mythology, 'Elpis' is the spirit of hope, and is also intrinsically linked with suffering.

And did you catch the transition in Emet's phrasing as he comes to terms with this fact? We went from 'You cannot be entrusted with our legacy,' to 'Do not squander it. The legacy I leave you.' If even he of all people can do it, so can you. You have the answer to your very own question.

Many of us love the individual people that were, and would very much like a separate timeline where we don't have to lose them, where we know they are alive and ok. the "We are the descendants of these people" doesn't fix or solve that. The sundered shards of them are not the same people, no matter how you rationalize it. Do we have some of the same soul deep traits? Sure. But a reborn Hades or Hythlodaeus will have different experiences that shape them, different memories. They will not be the same people we have grown to love.