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You're absolutely right, but also, this prepared the Elpis arc in EW. This set up an understanding and respect of the ascians. It's part of why I love them as characters. They made a choice, and lived with it for the millenias after. (Yeah, I'm still salty to the dread wolf). Their morality and ideology may be twisted, it is a logical progression and make sense. That we agree with it or are horiffied does not matter, they are coherent and understandable. (Not Hermes. Fuck Hermes). So I like them.

Me explaining that Emet-Selch often uses the rhetoric of fascists and eugenicists to describe the ancients and he speaks to the scions with a bad faith mentality and his entire character arc is about being unable to let go of the past and I need you all to understand that these things are not coincidence and this is the story explicitly trying to tell you that if you are not careful your nostalgia will become worship of the past which will in turn become horrific fanaticism