(EW Spoilers) Tales from the Dawn #5 - Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come

[Cleretic]

I headcanon that my Azem left to investigate the situation in the other territories and try to help the people there, only to come back and find that Emet-Selch allowed her brother Hythlodaeus to be sacrificed to Zodiark in her absence.

And get absolutely livid in response, beat the crap out of Emet, and promptly leave again to do whatever it is she did right before dying in the Sundering.

Yay!

And mine actually stems from a general view that, from our perspective, Azem is probably not what we'd see as 'a good person'. That's partially because I think the most interesting part of Amaurot is the ways in which they're very much not perfect, and partially because I like the dynamic that the WoL is actually a better person than the deified figure they're being compared to. So given one of my main jobs is Summoner I imagine their 'combat style' being purpose-built creation magic with little regard for the creature's comfort, wellbeing, or long-term viability; if an explosive bird solves the problem they're looking at today, it doesn't matter if it can survive to see tomorrow. (so yes, in my headcanon, they probably are a major cause of Hermes' existential questions.)

So I sort of picture them striking off from the Convocation not because of any moral objections per se, but because they just bet they can come up with something better. Perhaps when the sundering hit, they were off in some cave convinced they were onto something... or, perhaps they were there to see the skies burn, and caught the business end of their hubris as their creation magic turned against them, dying unremarkably and unnoticed.

As fun as that idea is, you can all understand why I don't particularly share it or try to make others see it.