The emotional weight of being the sundered Azem is kind of lost on me because nobody ever acknowledges that we are the sundered Azem. We reach the height of that revelation at the end of 5.0 with Emet's denial, but whenever Azem and our relation to them is brought up again after that, it feels like a dud, like '' what am I supposed to do with this information and why should I feel any type of way, nobody else seems to feel any type of way about it either. ''

I was expecting the Elpis section to at least address our existence, have Emet go on another round of denial that we are the remnants of his friends shattered existence or something, but beyond Hythlodaeus' '' I don't understand how you are so alike, yet so different '' it's never really brought up. So neither am I convinced that I should have this emotional attachment to my bygone friends of the ancient era, when the whole Azem thing is just a shallow as f plot device.

Not that I don't enjoy imagining what my interpretation of Azem would be for my WoL, but that is as far as it goes.