User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 450: Alone in all the World, Review./@comment-24800928-20150831165826/@comment-7418318-20150831210839

Makarov used to be clever enough to figure it out, but after attempting to save his "children" from Azir by encasing them in his hands in the face of a wave of corroding sand, I'm not so sure anymore.

I mean seriously... grabbing all of them was the surest possible way to get them killed, ratehr than to save them. Literally everything else he could have done (other than killing them himself) would have increased their chances for survival, including just doing nothing.