Endwalker Story sucked and it's time to admit it

[Lurina]

Emet-Selch lied.

In the 'original' time line, you're dead as a result of the 8th Umbral Calamity.

In the 'current' time line, you're supposed to die horribly when you actually cause the 8th Umbral Calamity after consuming the light from so many Lightwardens.

He may have been referring to Azem, I suppose. But the Warrior of Light is not Azem, and there is still the problem of the failed 'rejoining' that resulted in the Void.

You've misunderstood Emet's character in Shadowbringers. As Yoshi-P has outright said in an interview, he was being sincere when he said that he wanted to become allies with you if you could contain the light. The elevator scene takes place right before the fight with Vauthry, when it seems like you might actually do it. That's why he's so much more sentimental and open with you there compared to any other part of the story.

Emet's arc in Shadowbringers is one of internal conflict. Part of him wants to crush you and continue with the plan, while another hates what he's been reduced to and wants an excuse to finally stop, or else to be stopped. His 'test' for the player character is an attempt to try and resolve these competing emotions. When you fail to contain the light, it gives the former half of him the excuse it's looking for to write you off as another failure and subhuman being, but that's not the totality of his feelings.

Well it isn't gonna happen, so you're gonna have to accept that. Like how I had to accept that we'd never get a 3rd zone for Bozja. <_<

They probably will do this, or else invent some other way to have a happier ending for the Ancients - you might not have noticed, but the FFXIV writers are immensely sappy and will almost never leave a controversial or bittersweet resolution to a plot unamended in the long term, even when they probably ought to. Though I don't quite get why people see this as some kinda panacea to the whole situation, since it's not like it would make the whole plot surrounding the Sundering any less awkward insofar as it already exists in the setting.

Anyway, fortunately for you, this also applies to the Bozja plot, which Yoshi-P and Matsuno are planning to go back to. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...no_and_yoship/