Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
Either way, Venat herself does not speak ill of them and says they only do as they believe is best for the star. And I think that's the crux of the disagreement - the two groups had conflicting visions on how to best steward the star. Checking Zodiark's might and ceding the future to the 'newer souls' was their view on how to do that. Again the way they don't malign the Convocation suggests to me they're also viewing their proposed actions in the framework of sacrifice for the greater good of the star - they just disagreed that further sacrifices would achieve that. Their concerns therefore also appear to be pragmatic in nature. There may be more to the whole thing but based on what we currently know, that's how I read it.
Given Elidibus himself was confused on what the Convocation actually wanted, and he obviously did not receive any influence from Venat's group, I think this is more a case of everyone disagreeing with each other, and they happened to coalesce into two vague groups that continued to squabble among themselves. Maybe they started as being all polite and Amaurotine about it at first, but seeing how the Ascians we see in the present day apparently loathe each other, obviously it didn't last.

One of the major issues is that Emet-Selch is the only source of information on what the people of the Ancient world actually wanted, and we know how biased he is, as well as prone to leaving out rather important bits of information to serve his own purposes. Lahabrea had gone crazy (with considering Zodiark as the One True God), and Elidibus was senile. The other Ascians had been subordinate to the Unsundered (primarily the aforementioned Crazy Lahabrea), and once all the Unsundered were dead, the one example we see of Fandaniel decided to Kill Everything, ignoring the whole Rejoining business. At this point, it does seem like literally only Emet-Selch was on-board with the original plan of "Rejoin then sacrifice".