Zodiark's Codex entry what do we think about it?

[Brinne]

I have seen ample evidence that Emet would lie to both us and ourselves to make the Ancients look better and like more of a tragic loss, and us as worse.

I mean, they were. They were absolutely a tragic loss.

Putting aside things like how inherently absurd it is to blame three ghost wizards for the totality of mankind’s vices, it continues to be very strange to me how much of a sticking point pointing at one of the sole survivors of what was a total eradication and erasure of his people (who is now four years real-time dead himself) and yelling “your dead race wasn’t as smart as you think they were!” I mean… okay, I guess. Are the Ancients less worth mourning if they weren’t as super smart as he claims, somehow? Are the Sundered less worth defending if they were?

The important thing to understand about Emet (it somehow always returns to Emet, even following a patch where he wasn’t even mentioned…) is that his rationalizations don’t even matter that much in the end, because none of it is the actual core reason he’s doing what he is, which is simply love and duty. The rest is fluff he layers on top to make it easier for himself because he hates it.