Quote Originally Posted by Ixon View Post
Besides, half of the people here didn't care at all at the end of ShB, when we found out that us living meant the continued death of the Ancients, they were right on board with "Whoo-hoo, kick Emet's butt!".
I didn't want to fight him at all, especially after what I'd learned from Hythlodaeus. The game didn't give me the option to even show him empathy though (standard treatment for Ascians), so I did what they made me do. I didn't take any pleasure from it and wanted to backhand Alphinaud when he ran up shouting joyously about Emet-Selch being dead.

Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Emotions can be highly effective at drowning out logic and reason.

I honestly fell into the same trap and it wasn't until I watched someone else doing the segment that I really realized how much of Venat's reasoning just feels like excuses and that she was already set on having history repeat itself in regards to the parts she knew the details of.

I particularly didn't buy into the thought that telling the Convocation about the Final Days would've somehow thrown things into disarray and made it harder for them to have fought back against the first coming of the Final Days.
Ditto. This is exactly what happened with me also. Then I started to really think about it from that point and it was like a waterfall of contradictions just came rushing at me. I struggle to even rewatch those scenes now but I see how easy it can be to be swept away on the first time through, take what you're given as law and never think about it again. That's how they planned it, after all.