Post EW, I still have Questions

[Alleluia]

So, Endwalker answered several questions I've had about events surrounding the final days and such. But it also left a few, as well as raising some, to me.

1. How did Emet and Lahabrea avoid being sundered?
1a. How is Elidibus unsundered when he's the heart of Zodiark and Zodiark is sundered???

2. Where was Azem during the Final Days and what were they doing?

3. What did Fandaniel mean when he said "Did Emet-Selch truly find a way...?" in response to hearing that Zenos has dreamed of the Final Days his whole life?

4. If tempering is an add-on to primal summoning and not an unavoidable requirement, then who included it in Zodiark's summoning and why?

5. Why does Azem seem to know about our pending presence in Pandaemonium, to the point they can (cryptically) tell Elidibus to be on the lookout for us? (And if they do, did they know we'd be in Elpis proper, too, and avoided us?)

6. And this might just be me, but why isn't Azem a proper character in their own right like Ardert, instead of being somehow determined by our CC choices in the future?

7. Was the moon ship idea ever supposed to be considered a viable option? I mean, they weren't remotely prepared despite 12k plus years. Also, nothing stopped Meteion from just redirecting her "gift" at whatever planet we landed on. Or the moon ship itself, though that possibly had an aetheric field properly shielding it. Was it just a play by Venat to give hope to people? Even Venat herself is like, "All I did in that time was prepare a way to flee? That seems dumb." And it wasn't even properly prepped, so...



I have a feeling the Pandeamonium raid is going to answer 4 and 5. (Current theory on 4 is that Lahabrea did it and that the trouble in Pan is his early tempering expermients running amok. Also there's vampires. For some reason.)

Rant about question 6:

With the addition of Azem seemingly knowing the future, or at least our specific movements in it, I am forming a crazy theory that the answer to 6 might be b/c we ARE Azem somehow? Not as in "we're a soul shard of them", but as in time travel is a loop and somehow we become them or end up creating them in our image or something?

There's also the fact that Azem was "less than half" Venat's age and yet surprisingly strong, a strength we have and which Venat immediately implies correlates to having "endured considerable hardship". And yet the society Azem is ostensibly from notabely doesn't have much hardship in it. Its the entire reason they were not able to cope with the despair Metion threw at them. Its also why Hermes was driven to despair: he seemed to be alone in feeling suffering. The Elpis blooms always being white indicated literally no one else felt such grief. While I find that difficult to believe, its what we're shown and told. So how'd such a young Azem grow so strong in such a society, then? What if their strength is from us... somehow?

Its crazy, and when it was just ShB I thought the devs were just being oddly selective about what they thought could break our immersion (Female WoL must apprently come from a female Azem, but having a male soul shard in Ardbert wasn't just as "weird" why???). However, now I'm not so sure??? lol

So yeah, least crazy option is we pass on our memories, via the Echo or a crystal, to a young pre-Venat Azem at some point. Most crazy is we (or an altered clone of us or something) ARE Azem.

Feel free to discuss or add your own questions.