I'm sorry, did you play the game before you went and started offending people you don't know on the internet?
If you have found an offending part in my words - congratulation, because I didn't put a piece in that. But oh well.., I'm sorry, really, if I did offend you.
and that he is surprised.
Yes, he was surprised that
it wasn't he who resurrected her, that's all. Yes, he didn't know that the main goal of Zandalor and protagonist is to resurrect Ygerna, not to destroy her soul, but... read below ->
The game's dialogue EXPLICITLY STATES that he did not know anything
What he didn't know? He didn't know that he wants to resurrect Ygerna? He didn't know that he asked the "old lizard" (as he calls the Patriarch) to open Hall of Echoes for him? What else he didn't know, tell me.
Here is the original quotes from the end scene with Divine One:
No, Dragon Knight, Ygrena's life is Damian's invincibility as I learned from my accursed son himself. They have been questing for the same outcome from within the Hall of Echoes and from without.and
Ygrena was the first to triumph. "...AS I LEARNED FROM MY ACCURSED SON HIMSELF..."
"...YGRENA WAS
THE FIRST..."
(But ofc, you're still saying he didn't know about that too - fine, you won, lol)
So, as you said: "This is not a matter of interpretation or of missing clues that point to the real plot - the text of the game specifically describes what has happened, and Damian's role in these events."
^^- Completely correct, re-read your own words :P