Who knew the 6.15 Omega Quests… (Spoilers)

[Veloran]

Hydaelyn was nearly dry of aether

Clearly not.

There’s nothing indicating that Minfilia wished to not be the Word of the Mother or that she was going to die if she didn’t say yes,

She was drifting in the aetherial sea. If she didn't say yes, she would have died or at least suffered permanent injury. Ultimately, Minfilia being made Word of the Mother wasn't even hugely relevant to the story, because there's not much she did that Venat shouldn't have been able to do on her own regardless.

[*]Emet hatches a plan to aetherically corrupt his long lost friend, the player character, into a Lightwarden in order to trigger the Eighth Umbral Calamity. It backfires when Emet is impaled with extreme prejudice by that selfsame light.

It's kind of funny to think that even at this point anybody can legitimately be so confused about Emet's motivations.

Nihilism is the philosophical equivalent of being a teenager. It's momentous for its time, but most people eventually move on past the angst to bigger and brighter things.

Almost a million people kill themselves every single year, to say nothing of the countless millions more that suffer from persistent depression or conditions which will never improve, and philosophies about the inherent lack of meaning in existence go back thousands of years. To characterize the idea of not finding value in life as nothing more than a passing phase of teenage angst is frankly just ignorant.