What lore do you ignore?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Emet did overturn the prophesied outcome that we recounted in Poieten Oikos. It is true that he became a tyrannical despot. But it is also true that he proved to be more than just that, in the end, by coming to our aid in Ultima Thule. Had Venat judged him only based off of what we told her, rather than what she knew about him, then we would have lost.

He didn't do anything differently. By the time you reach Ultima Thule either he helps Venat's super soldier made from pieces of his best friend or the universe ends. Given Emet-Selch's goal was always, always to reduce the suffering inflicted by the Sundering by putting people back together again, helping the universe not end is completely consistent with his character. He didn't change. He just got tired. Lost and gave up attempting to undo a genocide given he'd be at it for 12k years and by this point we'd re-evolved to something close enough to what he understood as a person, he'd just have to deal with it.

And yes, Emet-Selch is required not to be bitter about being used, tortured and his people massacred--or we lose. He had to produce a child with beings he believed less than human--or we lose. That child's descendant had to grow up to be a psychopath that's willing to stalk us to the edge of the universe--or we lose.

It's almost like a single person shouldn't take it upon themselves to decide the fate of the universe given it was barely saved. It's almost like Venat should have played through the 6.x content and learned the importance of teamwork...