Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Not necessarily...

The only thing the line implies is that the rebels knew Zodiark's supporters would hate them for summoning Hydaelyn, whose purpose was to shackle their savior (so as to prevent him from devouring the new lives of the world). The exact consequences of (trying to) do so could not have been foreseen; to say they considered the Sundering a likely if not inevitable outcome assumes several points of information.

Further one of the key points of Shadowbringers was heroes being branded villains for going against authority despite the depravity of said authorities (the conflict with Vauthry); to say their actions paint them in a negative light is ignores this.
To reduce the story to being ‘heroes against depraved authorities’ is quite an oversimplification. Another recurring point throughout Shadowbringers has been that the good-evil divide is not always as clear cut as we’d like to imagine.

Venat and the rest of Hydaelyn’s supporters may have made their choices with the best of intentions, but, as far as we are aware, the same could arguably be said of the Convocation. To force such a decision, which would affect all survivors (their awareness of how much so may be debatable), in full knowledge that there was little support for it, strays too far from democracy to sit well for me right now.