Shed some Garlean light?

[Cleretic]

including Allag - he outright and very gleefuly boasted of that fact when he first introduced himself to the Warrior of Light and the Scions in the Crystarium during Shadowbringers

What's interesting here is that every noteworthy figure in Allag is accounted for, usually thanks to cloning, meaning none of them can be Emet puppeting someone else; he's not Emperor Xande (either time), he's not Amon, he's not Noah, he's not Unei or Doga, he's not even Phlegethon or Artorius.

God knows I don't want another Emet story enough to find out (and I'm basically at my limit for 'stories about Allag leadership' too), but I do find that part notable: we only really have Emet's word for him influencing Allag, we don't actually have any evidence of how.

[SannaR]

What's interesting here is that every noteworthy figure in Allag is accounted for, usually thanks to cloning, meaning none of them can be Emet puppeting someone else; he's not Emperor Xande (either time), he's not Amon, he's not Noah, he's not Unei or Doga, he's not even Phlegethon or Artorius.

God knows I don't want another Emet story enough to find out (and I'm basically at my limit for 'stories about Allag leadership' too), but I do find that part notable: we only really have Emet's word for him influencing Allag, we don't actually have any evidence of how.

And then there's the Echo memory we get from Fandaniel. Where either he just got raised up to his seat when Emet is telling him to send a clone to Syrcus or that scene is part of a longer talk. Either way even if Emet wasn't a known influencer he seemed to have the right people's ears. Sometimes that's all a person needs to influence other things. He did say he knew how the tower worked. Now we don't what all knowledge was public accessible and what wasn't.