What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Teraq]

Never mind the terrible time loop plot point or Venat taking a single line from Meteion about some distant alien civilisation and absolutely running with it like an olympic athlete because she found the WoL cool, I've got to give it to Kairos for not only being an awfully convenient memory wipe machine, but also possessing the power to make everyone in its vicinity a dumb-ass.



Are you going to tell me that literally nobody investigated an incident in which one of the most important people on the planet (as well as his also-kind-of-a-big-deal friend) got his memory wiped by a goddamned memory wipe machine? The memory wipe machine that he himself found dodgy as soon as he heard about it because this is apparently something restricted by law, as he mentions it potentially making Pashtarot jump out of his seat? Is... is everyone just going to roll with that??? Does nobody in Elpis find this fishy at all? I mean there was quite the commotion outside Ktsis Hyperboreia when we went in. Why did Emet-Selch not retract himself from evaluating Hermes right there and then? Why not postpone the process and assign another Convocation member to reevaluate Hermes once the situation has been fully investigated and figured out? IS ANYONE ON THIS CONVOCATION OKAY???

God damn it this plot you guys ffs

(I propose an AU where the Convocation raises the alarm about what happened, Pashtarot goes to investigate things in Elpis with Echo abilities and he discovers the truth with complete horror, asking Elidibus how to proceed and what, exactly, to do with Hermes... and Venat, due to the very dubious implications of her not telling anyone a peep about the whole deal.)

Not sure if it really was wise to depict them as tempered instead of just letting them have their very own different personalities without any influences other than their own convictions and duties. In a way it makes things less interesting.

Hard agree. Going further, if we were going with tempering anyway, then I would have liked Ascians, Unsundered and Sundered, to reflect on it and what it means to them, how they think it's affecting them or not, free will, etc. Sort of like the couple of other examples we have of unsundered beings getting tempered, i.e. Tiamat and Altima in their Convocation crystal.