Quote Originally Posted by redheadturk View Post
I still am of the mindset that Azem went to seek a third option that would eliminate the need both for Zodiark's summoning and the Sundering. Which would very much imply Venat did not tell them either, as the recordings in Anyder suggest.
That is what I've wanted to believe ever since we learned that Azem didn't want to be part of either summoning. Yet the stuff with what Elidibus says to us at the start of Pandaemonium makes it come off that either they had future sight like Mikoto does or a former Azem told an Azem something along the lines of "Hey, you're going to have to say no to the Zodiark plan and to my Hydelean plan. Don't ask me why." Maybe they went to try and find out why the aether was drying up in places as even though we know that's not exactly what caused the Final Days that's what everyone else thought. I'm still confused about the sound that came from the earth since why would that happen if the song is coming from the outside? Unless the song targets a planet's core/sea and works from the inside out. Cause right now Azem's actions or lack of action comes off as the worst.