*Some Azo quest spoilers*
You do find out that the point of the soul jumper was to discredit animancy in the city and get them up in arms about it. Honestly after reading through the story and notes carefully I don't think Azo was on to anything. The sould jumper modified his notes tampered with equipment and basically lead him down the path he wanted to make Azo think he was making progress. All to get that little girl to kill herself infront of the crowd. The fact that Azo took people against their will threw them in a dungeon and did horrific things to them is beyond messed up. So did Azo make some progress? Maybe but all of his notes and equipment are messed up he would have to start over from scratch and did Azo strike you as the guy to do that? I mean he kept doing experiments after his extreem failure and forced people to participate against their will. I didn't get a warm fuzzy vibe from the guy and if you told him someone screwed with his notes and machines do you think he would start over in a new kinder, gentler, human experimentations do you? I told him I was going to tell on him and he tried to kill me. That doesn't scream great guy on the edge of discovery to me.