Ismail campaign story question

[Ro9ge]

Can someone explain the narration and story to me? The narrator's motivation seems to constantly contradict itself. First it's just for vengeance, but ends up with curiosity about why he doesn't recognize her, so we start getting told the story by her, with a comment that Ismail's downfall was caused by his paranoia.

Then, we learn her brother died fighting alongside him, and she was angry he didn't honor his sacrifice, which...seems a bit weak, considering how strongly vengeful she was earlier? I thought her brother was betrayed or killed by Ismail until I heard that. Kudos to the voice actor,, btw, it's almost too good.

Then we learn she still has questions about the story after that, which...goes against earlier where her curiosity was about him recognizing her brother, not what happened after he died. It also confuses who is even telling the story - It's told as if it's the narrator, but this comment makes it sounds like Ismail is telling the story, since she doesn't know what happened, despite telling us everything that happened through narration?

Then we learn Ismail's downfall was due to arrogance to the point of believing he was immortal, and had a complete lack of any fear, which is the literal EXACT opposite of the paranoia comment earlier. What did they mean by paranoia? The final scenario starts with him losing due to having no paranoia at all!

Then it ends without any comment about if her her questions or curiosity got answered, she just says she feels pity, and it's ambiguous if she kills him or not.

So...what was she actually curious about? Was Ismail too arrogant or too paranoid? Was her motivation for maybe killing him anger at her brother dying in the war, or dissatisfaction with Ismail's leadership afterwards? Also, how the heck do you get all 10 relic carts in the final mission before you beat it?