[Ethlyn looks at Emet-Selch in genuine surprise. The protest at her lips fades before she says it, even though what she would say is true: that Lombard and Reptor were entirely mistaken about her father's intentions, that just because it's what they would do doesn't mean her father would.]

Perhaps it could have looked that way from the outside--to two men who didn't understand doing something without the promise of personal gain.

But yes, even so... their own ancestors only defeated that dark power because of intervention from the gods. And it was little more than a century ago--it was in the living memory of their grandfathers, if not their fathers.