Bring back Emet-Selch

[Rannie]

Na....they probably won't come back anytime soon and if they do, will be just subtle references...perhaps a child with weird talents like they did with ShB ending and Ardbert.

Except that child wasn't Ardbert as they have already stated in the 5.2 patch (you know the cutscene when Elidibert showed up and our character literally says thats not the real ardbert and Urianger as well as that moole dog confirm that our soul is still as dense as it was when he merged with us at the end of 5.0 and confirmed by dog mole in 5.1 compared to the other scions soul densities) that Ardbert's soul completely merged with ours and the child was born while ardbert was still roaming the world as a spirit.

On the subject of Emet .. nah let the man sleep...

[shadowclasper]

Let the guy have his peace. Thanks to that memory lock device he's gonna have to deal with recurring memories of the unsundered world forever more but at least he can forget all the thousands of years since.

[Cleretic]

Bring back Emet-Selch? What, a fourth time?

Don't pay the same song that many times, the people who like it get bored and the people who don't like are REALLY not getting won over after a point.

[Lurina]

They'll bring him back when the game is in the terminal phase of its life cycle and they need old fan favorite characters and storylines to get people to pay attention.

Trust me. I played FFXI.

Also, they'll probably put him in a million spin off things.

[Lyth]

I was under the impression that the recurring underwater/bubbles motif was them being gradually purified by the lifestream. There are obviously plenty of opportunities in cross-overs. As for this game, give it some time. If we encounter him in the arc after this one as a grouchy child, then at least we'll know how much in-game time has been passing.

[Turnintino]

I hate him. <3

[SilversLyu]

And then 8UC Emet-selch comes jumping off the top turnbuckle of the First's Crystal Tower's basement wrestling arena!

Eight umbral calamity timeline expansion when?

[thegreatonemal]

That's an interesting thing. Emet and Hythlodaeus should both logically have memories of Elpis permanently burned into their souls. Similar to how Hermes had dreams of Elpis as Amon, but possibly worse since they weren't sundered like he was and wouldn't have already reincarnated a bunch of times.

Strong memories get burned into your soul. The events of Elpis shattered Hermes's view of the world. I doubt it had that effect on the other two.

[Brinne]

I love Emet, so on some level I'm always happy at the prospect of more content involving him, but narratively speaking, he should probably at least get a decent break of a few years.

Now, the Pandaemonium cast, on the other hand? No such reservations! Bring them all back and put them all in my party right nowwwww, SE!

[Hurlstone]

Emet-Selch is perhaps my favorite character in the game, but it is time for him to rest. Unless we delve more into the Ancients, I do not really see why he should come back. Its great when these character we love come back, but its always better when they do so to serve the story, not the other way around.