*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Jandor]

I'm unsure what you mean by this. You're told in Amaurot that they intend to sacrifice the "new life" specifically, not any members of their species or pre-existing creatures.

I'm not sure of the connection between potential other civilizations and the new life, but a big chunk of life in the present is clearly from Elpis. Given how dead the planet was implied to be, it would seem that a big chunk of the new life was based on existing concepts at least.

Zodiark is stuffed to the brim with Ancient souls after all, makes sense to nab a few ideas from them.

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Speaking of souls inside Zodiark.

When the sacrifices were first explained back in ShB, I had assumed they were used for fuel and as a result they were dead and gone, part of me suspected Zodiark might have even been lying about his ability to revive them.

Turns out though that, yes, they are all still there. We get to the moon and they're wandering about, we even have a little chat with Hythlo again. Which raises the question, why didn't Emet just go and visit?

'You think your tattered soul of equal value to those I lost?!'

You didn't lose him bro, he's on the moon, just go visit.