I don't get this thing about the Pathfinder

I've had 1 complete playthrough and multiple concurrent ones by this point in time, but there's some aspects to the story I can't wrap my head around, specifically bits about the Pathfinder.

Before writing this post I looked at all the Pathfinder scenes. To recap:

  1. In the prologue, it's the Pathfinder that unlocks our memory. It's also she who gets pawns to recognise us again, starting with Rook.
  2. The Pathfinder next appears in Act 2, skipping Act 1 altogether. She directs us to the Bakbattahl tavern, to Ambrosius, and finally to Moonglint Tower (by way of Jedi Mind Trick on Ambrosius).
  3. Her next appearance is at the coronation, where she tries to dissuade us from finding a way out of the end credits.
  4. Next, she appears after we use the Godsway on ourselves. She offers to take us back to the coronation, but we refuse. (Nitpick: Our refusal is played out in a cut scene; we don't get to choose whether to stay or leave.)
  5. Finally, she invites us explore the Unmoored World, mocking us for creating an ending where everything and everyone is eventually swallowed up in brine.
  6. The last she appears is as the Nex Dragon, where she delivers a terribly long and overdue lore dump on the Dragon's Dogma. I suppose it's poetic irony how it's our liberated pawn that pokes out her eye and her heart before we finish the job.

My questions:

  • Are we to understand that out of the many Arisen in DD2, the Pathfinder picked us? Most of the contemporary Arisen have lost the will to go after the Dragon, and although Sigurd is still active, he's doing a terrible job of tracking down the Dragon.
  • Of the various Arisen who lost the will, all of them are in Battahl. Why? Were they led there by the Pathfinder? Or were all of them trying to escape the schemes of ambitious Regents in the Vermundian court? (Interesting note: Did Disa know that Luz, the court oracle, was an Arisen before the woman disappeared into Battahl?)
  • In the game, the will of the Pathfinder is clearly for us to become the Sovran. (She even says so explicitly after we use the Godsway). But when we speak with Rothais, he says the Pathfinder has been sending Arisens his way to kill him. Why did the Pathfinder want us to be Sovran, instead of sending us after Rothais? Or was the Pathfinder already finished with Rothais by the time we arrived on the scene?
  • Did the Pathfinder foresee that our quest to track down Phaesus would lead us to discovering Rothais, and learning the truth of the corrupted Cycle?
  • Is it just me, or is the Pathfinder avoiding Vermund? When we first meet her in Battahl, she observes that we willingly returned to the land that once bound us to slavery, implying that the turn of events wasn't by her invisible hand? The only time she appears in Vermund is at the coronation (the opening and closing cutscenes).