Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Emet-Selch was almost certainly telling the truth. His primary concern was to ensure that his people were seen as actual people and that their history and culture was brought back/preserved. His name also roughly translates to 'Bringer of Truth'.

Hydaelyn, meanwhile, has been anything but open and honest. She has lied repeatedly - both directly and indirectly.

Characters have been killed off for far lesser reasoning. I think it's about time we apply the same standards across the board if we can find a way to safely extract her without shattering reality further.

There can be no mercy for false deities.
I think you need to redo the msq from scratch and explain this again cause frankly I think you're really scratching here.
First thing you need to remember Ascians are all tempered and the Tempered will think of ONLY for thier Primal. Thier reasoning thier justifications all of that are only to serve thier tempered masters ultimate goals. Zodiark required sacrifice and vast reservoirs of Aether and would only do his work when given these sacrifices it said as much right in the text of the story Half of the Ancients were required to stay thier end time to summon him half again that number was required to heal the world from what the ancients who brought forth the horrors of the world created. While Emet-Selch wanted to see his people restored the only way to do so was to once again bring forth Zodiark through the destruction of 13 worlds thats beyond vast amounts of Aether. and what would he do to see his people restored sacrifice the rest of the life that was left to Zodiark

Meanwhile Hydaelyn was summoned and was the very opposite of Zodiark Not once has she lied. In fact if you think things through you'd fairly quickly realise that in Order to Preserve Life Hydaelyn had no choice but to split everything into 14 separate parts. Even with Zodiark defeated his tempered would not end the war that began when they clashed and that war would very much have destroyed everything simply due to the untamed energies employed by the Ancients themselves by splitting existence into 14 parts Hydaelyn ensured that life would thrive and grow and evolve. it effectively ended a war that would have seen all life ended by that lifes own hands.