Discussion of the Stelmane cutscene.

Originally Posted by Milkfred
There are other tidbits that hint that the version of events he reveals is not true, such as Stelmane apparently living a pretty okay life after the "Mind Flayer attack", and that the Knights of the Shield were apparently a devil-worshipping group.

There is a note in the Elfsong basement that says Stelmane suffered a mysterious illness that only abated when she was visited by an indistinct friend nobody could remember. So the vision the Emperor shows you is corroborated by an outside source and must be true.

Overall I find speculation based on theme song lyrics to be overly far fetched. Daisy as a villain is so straightforwardly obvious that it's uninteresting, which is why they were rewritten. Nobody cuts something because it was a good idea, and inventing some grand theory based on single datamined dialogue lines doesn't mean that's what the original intent was.

However, (comments on endgame events)
The non-decision between freeing Orpheus and trusting the Emperor is definitely stupid.