Quote Originally Posted by Selvokaz View Post
What makes me so angry with Hermes is that Emet-Selch completely and utterly destroyed Hermes's question, and thus proved that Meteon's mission was flawed and thus her conclusion is flawed, and yet he still persist that his course was right, when again it was a flawed premise, to begin with. Hermes so loved creation and thus life so much that even in the face of his own mistake he'd rather allow the mistake to jeopardize all CREATION, the very thing HE LOVED SO MUCH.
Hermes was probably depressed. In a society that values conformity to that degree, of course they would've been absolutely garbage-fire god-awful at understanding a mental health issue like that. It doesn't matter that Emet-Selch was factually correct about what he should've done; not only is it too late, but Hermes didn't get to that state through logical reasoning, and you can't logic someone out of a view they didn't logic themselves into.

Which, in tragic irony, is the exact same position Emet-Selch would go on to have been in in Shadowbringers (time travel tenses are fun). Also probably depressed, also ignoring facts because he was emotionally mired into his plan rather than logically reasoned.