Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Considering how readily the Convocation seemed to shut out anyone who was not in full support of their plans (It's mentioned that "traitors" like Azem were stricken from their records/history), I could've seen them reasonably disregarding anything such dissidents would've had to say, even if it entailed something like a critical flaw with their plan that risked the star's safety and their Zodiark tempering could've been used as a further reason for any cries of protest to have been falling on deaf ears.
I remember a lot of speculation during ShB about the tempering, and that it possibly effected the WoL... which a lot of people really, really did not like. Personally would have found it interesting if both sides tragically had their free will restricted... certainly would explain my own WoL nodding and smiling with blank stares and hardly being given a variety of dialogue choices. If I had to be a bit cynical, that reaction might be why tempering in general got downplayed in the patches and also gained a 'cure', and why the Blessing of Light became a traveller's ward.