Quote Originally Posted by Alleluia View Post
Just want to say that I agree 1000% and have thought so since ShB came out, though I actually like Solas. I am glad someone else brought their similarity up. Whenever I've done it, I seem to just get blank looks and a change of subject. lol

Emet, if I understood him right, did really disappoint me in the end with the continued "my ideals are inviolate" If those ideals included killing everyone and bringing back their brethren that way, I don't see the point of the ancients being tempered being mentioned as a plotline. Just bite the bullet and have no ambiguity about the state of their free will at that point. I mean, its alreayd clear that if tempering effected anyone, it was narrowed to only the unsundered anyway. Fandaniel certainly had no compunctions about screwing over Zodiark and his salvation-focused aims, afterall.
To me with Emet,i actually liked that he stuck to his ideals. In the end the Sundered were living at the expense of the Ancients lives. The Ancients themselves didn’t have a choice, or outside help like the Sundered did. In the end though it just comes down to genocidaelyn making all the wrong decisions and the ancients sadly had to pay for it. In terms of the sacrifice the Ironworks were fine with sacrificing all the people in their timeline to being the WoL back. The ancients were doing no different.

In regards to some other calamity eventually befalling the ancients, this can be argued about any civilization. Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have fought through it and been able to prosper. I’m fairly certain the sundered aren’t the only people in the entire universe that can succeed with things like that.