Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 2)

Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

The difference being though is that in allowing something like the sundering to stay, you’re causing more death in the long run than would be caused by rejoinings. So it’s a matter of, do we just allow that to happen and allow more death to be caused, or let the rejoining happen, have people be rejoined to their original selves, the world becomes stable again and there’s less death overall.

The rejoining isn't the point, that's a separate debate altogether, in both my example and the games narrative it's the means to get there and their worth, I'd have to slowly crush the orb over 20000 years, causing the people within endless pain and torment, all so at the end, they'll cease to be so I can fix my own people.
In 14's case Emet and co have been subjecting the people of the sundered worlds to strife, pain, torment, death and calamities, all to fix something that happened so long ago it's all but been forgotten to time, perhaps the world was better, perhaps it wasn't, to everyone that matters today it doesn't matter.

If I could crush that ball in a few seconds, not centuries, if Emet could sacrifice all life in moments, not millennia, at some point the cost for what you're trying to do catches up to you, and then races off ahead of you, Emet was tired because I think that cost caught up to him, but how could he ever stop? I'm honestly reminded of a quote from 24 that sums it up pretty well.

"You took an oath. You made a promise to uphold the law. When you cross that line, it always starts off with a small step. Before you know it, you’re running as fast as you can in the wrong direction just to justify what you started in the first place."

The unsundered's plan was noble and even justifiable at the start, the life and knew and what they were trying to fix, but the longer time wore on, then this life began to exist in it's own right, at some point he knew, they knew, but they'd come so far, done so much, at this point it had to mean something, Emet was a dammed man because he couldn't stop, I don't think he'd have felt good if he'd actually done it, his only way out was to lose, which to me is why he finally stood up straight.