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    Player Theodric's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
    ...Emet-Selch is racist. He thinks people 'stood only to gain' from the Rejoining because he literally thinks that the Sundered people are lesser beings. He doesn't care about the people of the Source as they are, it's not a kindness.
    I'd say it's a bit more complicated than him being a 'racist'. He is shown to be very conflicted by what he had been forced to do in order to bear the burden of trying to prevent the complete and utter extinction of his race and the eradication of all knowledge of his civilisation, loved ones and their many accomplishments.

    Assuming you have any, I imagine you'd be at least a little torn up if you woke up one day and the equivalent of Venat had decided to forcibly devolve not only your loved ones but everybody you knew, stripping them of all memory and seeking to eradicate all knowledge of their existence.

    Which again, circles back to how messed up the entire situation is - and how Emet's actions are simply a consequence of the horrific corner that he was pushed into.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
    I'd say it's a bit more complicated than him being a 'racist'. He is shown to be very conflicted by what he had been forced to do in order to bear the burden of trying to prevent the complete and utter extinction of his race and the eradication of all knowledge of his civilisation, loved ones and their many accomplishments.
    See, the thing is that person wasn't saying 'Emet-Selch was right to stand by Plan Zodiark and his people' like you are. That's something that you could argue with decent moral grounding, and even though I disagree it's not one with less moral grounding than my own stance.

    That person was saying that the sundered people of the Source should be grateful for a plan that will always end in the Ascians killing them, because the people who would go on to live afterwards would be superior.
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